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Where does a 300 pound gorilla sit?
Apparently, at the bus stop. I'm sorry - but even with the injuries to innocent people, this is funny. How flimsy are the cages in Boston?
BOSTON, Sept. 28 — A restless gorilla broke out of its zoo enclosure Sunday, injuring a 2-year-old and a teenager before it was sedated and recaptured almost two hours later, according to zoo officials.
THE GORILLA ESCAPED from the Franklin Park Zoo minutes before the zoo was scheduled to close, according to Zoo New England CEO and President John Linehan.
The 5-foot, 300-pound adolescent gorilla escaped from its section of the Tropical Forest exhibit in August, but did not leave the exhibit grounds.
The gorilla injured the young girl and an 18-year-old woman almost immediately after escaping, Linehan said. A witness told police she later saw the gorilla sitting at a bus stop on a street near the zoo.
Edited to add... Zoo officials installed electrified wires to keep the 11-year-old primate from escaping again, but on Sunday he managed to leave the zoo grounds entirely.
“Needless to say, until further notice, he is not going to be on exhibit,” Linehan said.
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