Friday, May 25, 2007

Orangutan escapes from accident-prone Taiwanese zoo

It all looked like a bit of aping about - but it soon got out of hand when this orang-utan went on the rampage.

The animal escaped from his cage and terrified restaurant patrons, at the same Taiwan zoo where a crocodile recently chomped off a veterinarian's arm.

The latest incident at the Shaoshan Zoo in the southern city of Kaohsiung began when the orang-utan pushed his way out of his cage and wandered into a nearby restaurant courtyard.



As zoo officials scurried to bring the animal under control, he gleefully overturned picnic tables and motorbikes, forcing terrified diners to cower inside the eatery.

The orang-utan was finally subdued when an official shot him in the upper body with a a stun gun.

He was then carted off for treatment in the scoop of a small bulldozer.

No comments: