Teens Terrify Escaped Gorilla

Posted on August 15, 2003 by glasscastle

BOSTON — A gorilla who stands 5 feet tall and weighs
280 to 300 pounds got a brief taste of freedom Wednesday at the Franklin
Park Zoo.
 
Little Joe climbed down into the moat that surrounds his exhibit and then
up and out to freedom, but returned 10 minutes later after being spotted
by some teen-agers on a summer work program at the zoo.

from
Boston.com
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2 Responses to Teens Terrify Escaped Gorilla

  1. michael says:
    September 29, 2003 at 11:50 am

    It is my confirmed belief that there are really no such things a Coincidences. Everything in this universe is connected, its just that some of the connections are obvous and some are more obscure and indecipherable than Arnold Schwartznegers qualifications to be governor of California. Case in point, the Saga of Little Joe.

    Little Joe is a 300-pound gorilla, until recently happily enscounced in Boston’s Franklin Park Zoo, or as happily as any sentinent creature restrained against its will and put on display to a voyeuristic public can be. Then, this past August, as reported in the Dow Brigade, Joe escaped his enclosure briefly until he was scared by some random Roxbury teenagers at the zoo for a summer work/study program (who wouldn’t be) and promptly returned to his enclosure.

    Most of us had forgotten about the Saga of Little Joe until yesterday, when the Boston Globe came out with a front page story remembering the escapade and wondering how it could have happened. “The gorilla exhibit at the Franklin Park Zoo was supposed to be escape-proof. Its 12-foot-wide, 12-foot-deep moat was intended to prevent even the most agile ape from leaping across to the human side of the divide.

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