[billorites]

I dunno. Guilty I suppose

[TomServo]

who was staging a mock escape to practise their emergency routines.

Looks like it worked.

[chajin]

Gorilla warfare, older than the war on terrier...

Of course, he could have been looking for the gorilla his dreams.

[DCBryan1]

What did they do with him?

I have an idea!

[blackdog]

I am the proud owner of a gorilla suit we put red eyes on. We get pissed up drunk and run across rural roads in it to spur Bigfoot sightings. Now I’ve gotta be careful.

[Red Badger]

OOPS!.................sorry 'bout that, chief..................

[discostu]

big gorilla at the LA zoo, snatched the glasses right off my face, took the keys to my BMW, let me here to take his place.

Though Zevon probably could have handled the tranq.

[Red Badger]

the vet - who had only been in the job for two months

Where did he get his degree? online?.................

[Sacajaweau]

Goes to the old...”Never volunteer”

[defconw]

Brilliant!

[proxy_user]

Anyone who has run a disaster recovery test, realizes what can happen.

[Scrambler Bob]

‘, but was expected to make a full recover’

as in recover payment for pain and suffereing from a lawsuit?

[Red Badger]

UPDATE:

The incident was reported in the local Tenerife paper with the erroneous explanation that the keeper had been wearing a gorilla suit in order to make the practice drill more realistic and that one of the vets had fired at him after mistaking him for a real ape.

In fact, zoo management explained on Thursday that during the course of the exercise the vet accidentally released the tranquilliser dart into the leg of a zookeeper who was in the empty enclosure with him.

“The incident took place just after the vet had been informed that the alarm had been raised for a practice drill and not a real emergency,” explained Patricia Delponti, a spokesman from Loro Parque.

“He did not mean to hit the zookeeper and the zookeeper was not pretending to be a gorilla. He was wearing his normal uniform and had just informed the vet that it was a practice drill. It was simply an accident.”

The 35-year-old zookeeper has now fully recovered after being given an immediate antidote to the tranquilliser and treated in hospital.

“Obviously he was sleeping a lot after being shot with a tranquilliser meant for a 200kg gorilla and was under observation in hospital to make sure there were no lasting effects. But he has made a full recovery and is already back at work,” she said.

“Someone obviously got the wrong end of the stick about how we carry out a practice drill but the truth is there was no gorilla suit involved,” she said.

[keat]

“Shut up or you’ll get us both fired!.” (Old zoo joke)

[PATRIOT1876]

Was it AL Franken?

[bunkerhill7]

Panic of the Apes

[skinkinthegrass]

lock 'em up..jail or Zoo?

[TomGuy]

who was staging a mock escape to practise their emergency routines

I would have to mark the event as a complete success. Gorilla tranq-ed, escape averted.

Maybe next week they can try an escape of a man in a lion's suit.

[GeronL]

sounds like their emergency routines work

[a fool in paradise]

Darwin nominee?

[AngelesCrestHighway]