And the only! On Feb 13, 2008, at 3:09 AM, Bob W wrote:
> That's the best armadillo story I've ever read. > > Bob > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> Behalf Of Paul Stenquist >> Sent: 12 February 2008 11:36 >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> Subject: Re: The Cushman Photos -- watching a photographer progress >> >> I've been to Lincoln Park Zoo a number of times, but don't remember > >> the bear. When I was a kid, we most often went to Brookfield. They >> were about equidistant from the Southeast side. >> >> My best memory of Lincoln Park Zoo comes from the days when I worked > >> on the race car. We were driving back from Miami with our truck and > >> trailer one Sunday night and saw some armadillos poking around near > >> the road. The guy who was driving decided to stop, and one of the >> guys, who was a bit of a lunatic, jumped out and chased an >> armadillo. He caught him and put him in the truck, thinking >> we'd keep >> him in our shop as a pet. Well, when we got back to Chicago that >> Armadillo was very unhappy. Couldn't get him to eat. (Don't know why > >> he didn't like cheeseburgers), and the cold was making him sluggish. > >> So we decided to take him to Lincoln Park Zoo. After smoking >> a bit of >> weed. (The armadillo didn't like that any more than the > cheeseburger.) >> >> At the zoo, we managed to find the administration building. We went > >> into the office with the armadillo in a box and told the >> receptionist >> we wanted to donate an armadillo. Well, it seems the curator >> had been >> hoping to get an armadillo for some time. Just the day before they >> had tricked him with some kind of object made from an armadillo >> shell. They had wrapped a blanket around it and presented it to him. > >> So, he of course assumed this was another trick and refused to come > >> out to the reception area. So we took the armadillo out of the box. > >> The office was quite warm and that seemed to please him. He (or she > >> as the case may have been) began scampering around the office >> and the >> receptionist screamed. That got the curator out there. In short, he > >> was thrilled. We lied and told him that the armadillo must have >> crawled into our trailer while we were racing. Since they're an >> endangered species, we didn't want to end up in the clink. He >> pointed >> out that armadillos are very timid and would never come near a >> trailer, but he wanted an armadillo bad enough that he didn't press > >> the issue. So the armadillo moved into Lincoln Park Zoo, and we went > >> back to our cold shop, cheeseburgers and weed. >> >> And that's my Lincoln Park Zoo story, the only one I have:-). >> Paul > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
