Gothamist: Lawsuit Over Bronx Zoo Skyfari Stoppage

mckdarrenDC

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:24:53 -0500

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?

drchadwick1

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:39:33 -0500

You can thank these greedy bastards when the Bronx Zoo closes its tram down for "liability" reasons.

NannyState

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:21:08 -0500

$10 million for being frightened and inconvenienced. I think the biggest victim here is that woman's unborn baby.

cucarachita

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:15:47 -0500

BRONZ ZOO?

Spiritof76

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:02:05 -0500

[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.

rosweed

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:42:25 -0500

How to repel baboons while in a gondola - fling your feces at them. They hate that.

edEx

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:43:13 -0500

i have psychological trauma just reading about this law suit.

theevilone

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:37:31 -0500

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.

kidicarus

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:11:28 -0500

Oh my god it was AWFUL. But if you pay us some money it'll all be better. Pieces of shit.

yesiliveinwilliamsburg

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:43:18 -0500

Spirit, I agree, this whole thing is ridiculous, but the fact that they're possibly unwed is somewhat telling of what?

ANGRYGOD11

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:20:58 -0500

So they didn't know if they were going to live or die? Who does?

Spiritof76

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:19:27 -0500

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.

Giulia Pines

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:58:00 -0500

"Hey, we left our house and something happened to us. Let's make some money off of it!"

holyfrijole

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:35:22 -0500

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.

Snoopy

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:26:48 -0500

Was she visiting relatives at the time?

Snoopy

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:26:10 -0500

BTW how many months is the woman pregnant?

Snoopy

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:24:58 -0500

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?

Fritzdecat

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:03:15 -0500

Anyone that travels to the Bronx know they risk the possibility of being mauled by Apes worse than Babboons, it goes with the territory.