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Drunk students learn lesson from peeved giraffe (Hold my beer alert!)
AP/MSN ^ | 05/09/07 | AP

Posted on 05/09/2007 10:07:29 AM PDT by misterrob

VILNIUS, Lithuania - Climbing into a giraffe's cage at the local zoo seemed a good idea after a few drinks. But the prank went wrong when the 1.3-ton animal flew into a rage and attacked the three student trespassers at a zoo in Lithuania on Monday night.

Ruta Greiciute, a 22-year-old student at Kaunas Technology University, was hospitalized with a broken collar bone and nose after the 9-year-old male giraffe, named Solut, attacked her.

The other students survived the incident unscathed.

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TOPICS: Humor; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: drunkandstupid; giraffe; lithuania
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1 posted on 05/09/2007 10:07:33 AM PDT by misterrob
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To: misterrob

OK, even animals in cages should be considered “wild”life.


2 posted on 05/09/2007 10:09:15 AM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

RepreSENT! [woot]


3 posted on 05/09/2007 10:10:17 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: misterrob

Giraffes are fairly docile..but I’d wager that this one had a calf with her...they have been known to kill lions in the wild..


4 posted on 05/09/2007 10:11:12 AM PDT by ken5050
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To: misterrob
Related story:

Lithuania Discovers Belarussian Liquor Pipeline

5 posted on 05/09/2007 10:13:03 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: lizol

For your list.


6 posted on 05/09/2007 10:14:31 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: ken5050

Drunk and stupid is no way to go through life...


7 posted on 05/09/2007 10:18:10 AM PDT by misterrob (Yankees Suck!)
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To: misterrob; xsmommy; Hegewisch Dupa; martin_fierro
Piva'd students vs. a peeved giraffe -- no contest...
8 posted on 05/09/2007 10:21:22 AM PDT by mikrofon (Solut!)
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To: ken5050

Male giraffes are not mommas.


9 posted on 05/09/2007 10:21:44 AM PDT by ValerieTexas
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To: mikrofon; misterrob; xsmommy; Hegewisch Dupa; Charles Henrickson

Giraffe: 1

Riff-Raff: 0


10 posted on 05/09/2007 10:25:27 AM PDT by martin_fierro (pwn3d)
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To: al baby; Allegra; Auntbee; BJClinton; Dashing Dasher; dfwddr; exile; feinswinesuksass; ...

Tard ping


11 posted on 05/09/2007 10:30:35 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: misterrob

Now you tell me!

sighh


12 posted on 05/09/2007 10:30:37 AM PDT by agent_delta
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To: ValerieTexas

Maybe at the SF Zoo.


13 posted on 05/09/2007 10:31:20 AM PDT by agent_delta
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To: martin_fierro

Yep. Sounds like they had one too many long-necks...


14 posted on 05/09/2007 10:36:52 AM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (Tradition is merely a group effort to prevent the unexpected)
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To: misterrob
Too bad that won’t be following them forever and ever on their “permanent record”.
15 posted on 05/09/2007 10:38:15 AM PDT by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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To: mikrofon; NeoCaveman

drunken lithuanian ping : )


16 posted on 05/09/2007 10:39:42 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Hegemony Cricket
Snort... That was punny.
17 posted on 05/09/2007 10:41:12 AM PDT by agent_delta
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To: ken21; norton; LadyPilgrim; vox_PL; 1234; ChiMark; IslandJeff; rochester_veteran; NinoFan; ...
Eastern European ping list


FRmail me to be added or removed from this Eastern European ping list

18 posted on 05/09/2007 10:46:36 AM PDT by lizol (Liberal - a man with his mind open ... at both ends)
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To: ken5050
oh, gawd!! what has this genetic tinkering done!!??

. . . after the 9-year-old male giraffe, named Solut, attacked . . .

hide yer kibble!!!!

19 posted on 05/09/2007 10:54:16 AM PDT by Finger Monkey (H.R. 25, Fair Tax Act - A consumption tax which replaces the income tax, SS tax, death tax, etc.)
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To: misterrob

Anybody working near or around a zoo knows that the giraffe is the most dangerous animal to work around and is responsible for a significant number of caretaker deaths and injuries. The giraffe covers ground so quick by the time one realizes that one is being attacked, its over. The only time I ever worked on a giraffe was after it had been darted.


20 posted on 05/09/2007 10:58:08 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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