When Bad Things Happen to ........Zoo People

This is what happens when you are a zoo-keeper trying to tickle the soft underbelly of a cuddly croc for the amusement of bystanders.


Actually, the zoo worker was trying to administer a shot to the sick croc at a zoo in Taiwan. Doctors were actually able to reattach his arm and he is recovering in a hospital.


I can hear his coworkers back at the zoo once he returns, "hey, Chang I need some help over here, can you give me a HAND!"

This unfortunate incident, unfortunately shed a big light on the zoo, and in all the excitement, this little gem was exposed by folks slightly more qualified in the care and handling of exotic creatures:

Taiwan Zoo Faces Serious Sex Issues

A Taiwan zoo has become the laughing stock for having mistaken a female elephant for a male for 28 years, a newspaper said on Sunday.

The Shoushan Zoo in Kaohsiung, south Taiwan, received two baby African elephants from a US zoo in 1979, believing they were a male and a female, the Taipei Times reported.

Since then, the Shoushan Zoo raised the two elephants, Ali and Annie, as a couple and even held a much-publicized wedding for them in 2002. Annie died in 2003.

Although Annie never gave birth, zookeepers apparently never suspected both animals were females because Ali, now 33 and weighing five tons, was larger, stronger and more violent than Annie.

The truth about Ali’s sexual identity came out after a crocodile at the Shoushan Zoo bit off the arm of a vet who was giving the animal anaesthesia shots in order to treat its illness.

As the public attention focused on that incident, some animal experts pointed out that the culprit was a Saltwater crocodile, not a Nile crocodile as the zoo had described.

Then on April 20, the United Daily News reported the Shoushan Zoo’s mistaking Ali for a boy.

The Shoushan Zoo apologized for the mistake and said it would check the sex of its 683 animals so that the public would not be misinformed again.

Don't Be a Chinese Crash Test Dummy

Ever wonder why "they don't make 'em like they used to?" Like to only buy American? Do you think the cat food and toothpaste from China are the only two products you should avoid from over yonder? Think America is at risk of losing it's corner of the automotive market from cheap Chinese imports? If we're all lucky, cars made in China won't come within a curb feeler's length of North American shores.

Check out the recent crash test on YouTube. They reportedly had to take out the crash test dummy "in pieces."

Are You a Liberal?

You may be a Democrat, an independent, or even consider yourself a "moderate," or perhaps you don't even care much about such issues. Regardless, do you want to help answer whether you could be a liberal? If you're not sure or if you're feeling a little introspective, ask yourself the following questions from Dennis Prager to help you decide:

Do you believe the following?

1. Standards for admissions to universities, fire departments, etc. should be lowered for people of color.
2. Bilingual education for children of immigrants, rather than immersion in English, is good for them and for America.
3. Murderers should never be put to death.
4. During the Cold War, America should have adopted a nuclear arms freeze.
5. Colleges should not allow ROTC programs.
6. It was wrong to wage war against Saddam Hussein in the Gulf War.
7. Poor parents should not be allowed to have vouchers to send their children to private schools.
8. It is good that trial lawyers and teachers unions are the two biggest contributors to the Democratic Party.
9. Marriage should be redefined from male-female to any two people.
10. A married couple should not have more of a right to adopt a child than two men or two women.
11. The Boy Scouts should not be allowed to use parks or any other public places and should be prohibited from using churches and synagogues for their meetings.
12. The present high tax rates are good.
13. Speech codes on college campuses are good and American values are bad.
14. The Israelis and Palestinians are morally equivalent.
15. The United Nations is a moral force for good in the world, and therefore America should be subservient to it and such international institutions as a world court.
16. It is good that colleges have dropped hundreds of men's sports teams in order to meet gender-based quotas.
17. No abortions can be labeled immoral.
18. Restaurants should be prohibited by law from allowing customers to choose between a smoking and a non-smoking section.
19. High schools should make condoms available to students and teach them how to use them.
20. Racial profiling for terrorists is wrong -- a white American grandmother should as likely be searched as a Saudi young male.
21. Racism and poverty -- not a lack of fathers and a crisis of values -- are the primary causes of violent crime in the inner city.
22. It is wrong and unconstitutional for students to be told, "God bless you" at their graduation.
23. No culture is morally superior to any other.

Those are all liberal positions. How many of them do you hold?