I enjoy checking out the National Geographic News (among other things on their Web site). This month they reported about Exotic Animals Rescued at L.A. Airport (Photo Gallery included).
The photo gallery article opens: "Smugglers often resort to extreme measures to bring illegal animals into the United States. [Two] lesser slow lorises, a type of monkey, were discovered in a man's underwear at the Los Angeles Airport in 2002."
Those poor monkeys. If you look at the image on National Geographic you'll note they look quite traumatized.
Can you imagine the looks that guy was getting on the plane when his monkeys were wiggling? Or when people heard him whispering at his crotch, "Would you sit still. Oh. No. Oh my. Ouch. Stop biting!"
Thank goodness that the monkey's survived their ordeal. CNN reported that the monkeys ended up at the Los Angeles Zoo.
I found this old blog post that gave a little more information about the guy with the monkey in his pants. Apparently, on appeal (the guy appealed the decision after he confessed to having monkeys in his pants and then produced them for authorities?), Justice Bedsworth commented, "There is no non-culpable reason for having monkeys in your underpants."
If there is no non-culpable reason for having monkeys in his underpants, other than the obvious he was trying to smuggle in pets for idiots that buy illegal animals, why did he have them there.
Do you suppose the person who put together the "RELATED STORIES" section of the photo gallery article at National Geographic realized that "sick puppy" has more than one meaning?
Sick Puppies Smuggled From Mexico for Sale in U.S. (January 30, 2006)
With regards to smuggling puppies from Mexico....
I don't get it. Don't these people realize that we have so many unwanted pets already in the United States that we have them murdered (euthanized for those of you that prefer that word?
I worry about the animal rights of "exotic pets". For most pets, actually. I don't think most people should own domestic dogs and cats. And, the desire to own exotic animals is something I am so pleased seems to be in decline. When I was a kid it was fairly common to know someone that owned a monkey or skunk or some other exotic pet. These days I only know parrot and macaw owners. They're the last of the exotic pets that we need to stop wanting to own. When I was a child I always wanted a macaw, until I realized just what I'd be destroying. You can read more about macaws at the Macaw Landing Foundation's website. If you're in the Portland, Oregon area you can arrange a visit. I'm not likely to run out and buy How to Save the World in Your Spare Time by Elizabeth May, but I do support causes that protect animals from idiots like the guy with the monkey in his pants.
The photo gallery article opens: "Smugglers often resort to extreme measures to bring illegal animals into the United States. [Two] lesser slow lorises, a type of monkey, were discovered in a man's underwear at the Los Angeles Airport in 2002."
Those poor monkeys. If you look at the image on National Geographic you'll note they look quite traumatized.
Can you imagine the looks that guy was getting on the plane when his monkeys were wiggling? Or when people heard him whispering at his crotch, "Would you sit still. Oh. No. Oh my. Ouch. Stop biting!"
Thank goodness that the monkey's survived their ordeal. CNN reported that the monkeys ended up at the Los Angeles Zoo.
I found this old blog post that gave a little more information about the guy with the monkey in his pants. Apparently, on appeal (the guy appealed the decision after he confessed to having monkeys in his pants and then produced them for authorities?), Justice Bedsworth commented, "There is no non-culpable reason for having monkeys in your underpants."
If there is no non-culpable reason for having monkeys in his underpants, other than the obvious he was trying to smuggle in pets for idiots that buy illegal animals, why did he have them there.
Do you suppose the person who put together the "RELATED STORIES" section of the photo gallery article at National Geographic realized that "sick puppy" has more than one meaning?
Sick Puppies Smuggled From Mexico for Sale in U.S. (January 30, 2006)
With regards to smuggling puppies from Mexico....
I don't get it. Don't these people realize that we have so many unwanted pets already in the United States that we have them murdered (euthanized for those of you that prefer that word?
I worry about the animal rights of "exotic pets". For most pets, actually. I don't think most people should own domestic dogs and cats. And, the desire to own exotic animals is something I am so pleased seems to be in decline. When I was a kid it was fairly common to know someone that owned a monkey or skunk or some other exotic pet. These days I only know parrot and macaw owners. They're the last of the exotic pets that we need to stop wanting to own. When I was a child I always wanted a macaw, until I realized just what I'd be destroying. You can read more about macaws at the Macaw Landing Foundation's website. If you're in the Portland, Oregon area you can arrange a visit. I'm not likely to run out and buy How to Save the World in Your Spare Time by Elizabeth May, but I do support causes that protect animals from idiots like the guy with the monkey in his pants.
This really shouldn't be funny, but oh my goodness, the visual it creates is really off the wall. :) Some people are pretty idiotic. Did he think no one would notice Monkeys in his pants?
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