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by joanro on 31 October 2013 - 15:10
Power to the animals! Hehe.
by Two Moons on 31 October 2013 - 15:10
Especially the tasty ones......:)
by joanro on 31 October 2013 - 15:10
Suit case isn't the only thing taking a hit...check out the windshield wiper.
by Two Moons on 31 October 2013 - 16:10
Moons.
by joanro on 31 October 2013 - 17:10
...and the side view mirror.
by hexe on 31 October 2013 - 17:10
Back when the NJ Six Flags drive-through safari first opened, there were two incidents I witnessed that both left me wondering just how long the 'drive your own car through' concept was going to last...surprisingly, it did endure longer than I expected, though they did rather quickly start making the private vehicles take a detour loop that took them AROUND the baboon habitat instead of through it.
First incident: Driving through the safari park section in my big old maroon Plymouth Fury with the white vinyl top [we called it 'Velvet Jones', in honor of Eddie Murphy's SNL character], we head into the part where the bears were kept. I mention the car only because it was such a huge boat that we had a clear 360 degree view of this event. The roadway was bordered by several rows of single-strand electric fencing, set around 12 to 14 inches above the ground. meant to keep the bears back off the blacktop. This, off course, meant that the visitors could see the bears, but not get up close and personal with them. Or at least this was the intent. Was astounded to see one idiot put their car in park and get out, camera in hand, and head over to the side of the road and start stepping over the hotwires because he wanted a 'better' picture of the bears. Lucky for him that one of the park's guide-driven safari vehicles, carrying visitors who didn't want to risk their own cars, happened on the scene before the jackhole had gotten beyond the second hotwire and before the bears decided to investigate whether he'd brought food, because the ones on both sides of the road were beginning to stir from their snoozing spots. "But I just wanted a better picture", he kept shouting, as the staff ordered him back into his car and then escorted his vehicle out of the park.
Second round: Different visit, happily driving through the baboon section, unmolested. Come upon a car stopped on the roadway, surrounded by baboons, covered with baboons. Adults. Juveniles. Baby baboons. Notice that one of the people in the car has opened a front window just far enough to toss pieces of some type of food, sandwiches maybe, out onto the ground alongside the car, which the baboons of course find delightful. Until said person ran out of food, or got bored with feeding them, and tried to roll the window back up. As the person was deciding to close the window, a small baboon decided there might be more food to be had IN the car, and darted in through the window before it closed. Baby baboon bouncing all around in car, occupants of car shrieking, yelling, swatting; adult and juvenile baboons outside the vehicle unhappy with food supply ending, begin pounding, pulling at, gnawing on car. Baby baboon joins in shrieking now that it realizes it is trapped; people afraid to open window to let baby out lest other baboons come in. When we drove past the scene to go get a park ranger, the mirrors, wipers, radio & CB antennas [yeah, I'm that old] were all ripped off the car, as was the rear view mirror inside the car, and the sunvisors were hanging askew and the headrests looked pretty shabby. Wasn't long after that the park decided to re-route all vehicles around the baboon habitat and only let you view it from a safe distance.
I mean really...who the eff opens their window in the middle of a baboon troop?
First incident: Driving through the safari park section in my big old maroon Plymouth Fury with the white vinyl top [we called it 'Velvet Jones', in honor of Eddie Murphy's SNL character], we head into the part where the bears were kept. I mention the car only because it was such a huge boat that we had a clear 360 degree view of this event. The roadway was bordered by several rows of single-strand electric fencing, set around 12 to 14 inches above the ground. meant to keep the bears back off the blacktop. This, off course, meant that the visitors could see the bears, but not get up close and personal with them. Or at least this was the intent. Was astounded to see one idiot put their car in park and get out, camera in hand, and head over to the side of the road and start stepping over the hotwires because he wanted a 'better' picture of the bears. Lucky for him that one of the park's guide-driven safari vehicles, carrying visitors who didn't want to risk their own cars, happened on the scene before the jackhole had gotten beyond the second hotwire and before the bears decided to investigate whether he'd brought food, because the ones on both sides of the road were beginning to stir from their snoozing spots. "But I just wanted a better picture", he kept shouting, as the staff ordered him back into his car and then escorted his vehicle out of the park.
Second round: Different visit, happily driving through the baboon section, unmolested. Come upon a car stopped on the roadway, surrounded by baboons, covered with baboons. Adults. Juveniles. Baby baboons. Notice that one of the people in the car has opened a front window just far enough to toss pieces of some type of food, sandwiches maybe, out onto the ground alongside the car, which the baboons of course find delightful. Until said person ran out of food, or got bored with feeding them, and tried to roll the window back up. As the person was deciding to close the window, a small baboon decided there might be more food to be had IN the car, and darted in through the window before it closed. Baby baboon bouncing all around in car, occupants of car shrieking, yelling, swatting; adult and juvenile baboons outside the vehicle unhappy with food supply ending, begin pounding, pulling at, gnawing on car. Baby baboon joins in shrieking now that it realizes it is trapped; people afraid to open window to let baby out lest other baboons come in. When we drove past the scene to go get a park ranger, the mirrors, wipers, radio & CB antennas [yeah, I'm that old] were all ripped off the car, as was the rear view mirror inside the car, and the sunvisors were hanging askew and the headrests looked pretty shabby. Wasn't long after that the park decided to re-route all vehicles around the baboon habitat and only let you view it from a safe distance.
I mean really...who the eff opens their window in the middle of a baboon troop?
by vk4gsd on 31 October 2013 - 18:10
god gave us all the plants and critters to use
by joanro on 31 October 2013 - 19:10
..and the baboons get the people to use :-)
by GSD Lineage on 31 October 2013 - 19:10
Teenagers + Rhino
by Sunsilver on 31 October 2013 - 19:10
Many years ago, my husband and I visited the African Lion Safari here in Ontario. The baboon troupe destroyed the rear wiper on his Volvo wagon, and we watched them tear the marker lights off a school bus full of kids!
They give you the option of skipping the baboon exhibit, but we didn't know any better!
They give you the option of skipping the baboon exhibit, but we didn't know any better!
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