July 12, 2008
Lawsuit Over Bronx Zoo Skyfari Stoppage
Two days after being stuck in the Bronx Zoo's skyfari for five hours, one couple is suing for $10 million. The Post reports Damien Foster and Nandi Taylor--who is pregnant-- suffered "psychological trauma" because they were stranded for hours over the "fang-baring, flesh-eating baboons." They were ultimately brought back to the ground by emergency workers using cranes for high-angle rescues, but Foster and Taylor's lawyer said his clients "didn't know if they were going to live or die." It's believed a strong gust of wind knocked a cable car's wheel off track, which then stopped all cable car movement.
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Anyone that travels to the Bronx know they risk the possibility of being mauled by Apes worse than Babboons, it goes with the territory.
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I could see if she gave birth up there in the car and the fang bearing baboons ate the new born after it dropped out of the car, but huh?
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BTW how many months is the woman pregnant?
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Was she visiting relatives at the time?
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Idiot, opportunistic a$$wipes. If it wasn't that, she would have "accidentally" tripped over a crack in the pavement and sued the zoo for that.
And someone should take the lawyer who was willing to file this and hang him over those fang bearing baboons. I *am* a lawyer and think filing this sort of frivilous lawsuit is disgusting.
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"Hey, we left our house and something happened to us. Let's make some money off of it!"
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I hope it was the typically idiotic Post writers who wrote the part about "flesh-eating baboons" rather than the couple. Baboons usually eat grass and other plants, with occasional small animals. They would probably be more terrified of much larger humans intruding into their habitat. Also, it's unclear from the articles whether these two were taken out of the gondola by crane, or in one of the other gondolas which were safely restarted with occupants inside after the faulty one was fixed. Gothamist makes it sound like they were in the broken one.
It's somewhat telling that these two are unwed, judging by their different surnames.
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So they didn't know if they were going to live or die?
Who does?
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Spirit, I agree, this whole thing is ridiculous, but the fact that they're possibly unwed is somewhat telling of what?
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Oh my god it was AWFUL.
But if you pay us some money it'll all be better.
Pieces of shit.
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The people in the broken gondola were two women and one of the women's daughters. These clowns didn't need to be hoisted out by the crane. I knew it was just a matter of time until someone sued, but geez, these people wasted no time. They probably went straight to their lawyer's office after they got off the ride.
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i have psychological trauma just reading about this law suit.
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How to repel baboons while in a gondola - fling your feces at them. They hate that.
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[9] It's telling that they refuse to do the right thing, whether it be laughing off an event where they were in no danger or giving the baby a proper family. I don't see anybody else suing the zoo, not even the people who had to climb out onto the crane during the rescue. At least not yet. This is as pathetic as the mother who claimed her son was "traumatized" when he was one of the people stuck on the Roosevelt Island tram. As soon as the boy got off, he said on TV that he wasn't scared and felt like he was in the Spider-Man movie, but then the mother goes and sues, claiming he's too scared to go to school anymore. Money-grubbing twit.
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BRONZ ZOO?
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$10 million for being frightened and inconvenienced. I think the biggest victim here is that woman's unborn baby.
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You can thank these greedy bastards when the Bronx Zoo closes its tram down for "liability" reasons.
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Considering that these unmarried "purents" presumably live their ghetto lives at ground level surrounded by baboons with semi-automatic handguns, how could they be "traumatized" by unarmed baboons 100 feet below?