The IBM Selectric sightings thread evolved into the subject of typewriters in general.
I'm good with a giraffe story in itself being a sighting, even if secondhand ( AKA giraffe hearsay ), tattoo sightings, bad day at the zoo sightings... Cloud sightings. A giraffe joke off Bob Newhart...., statues. Shirts. Mugs. Rubber stamps. The son of a guns are everywhere.
A minor jackpot will be if Noory or his guest suddenly talks about giraffes.
( I don't listen to C2C much these nights, so I would appreciate someone posting if that does happen. I can easily imagine George.
"How about those giraffes? They have really long necks. I mean, really long. Don't they?" )
Well okay then we'll go with it. The Detroit Zoo isn't actually in the City of Detroit, it is in Royal Oak which is about two miles north of Detroit. The pen for the giraffes is rather unique in that it has an Egyptian theme with ancient Egyptian style drawings of animals, hieroglyphics and Pharaohs overlooking the action:
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loginYears and years ago when I first started working, I had an older co-worker and I got to talking with him. He always seemed like the uptight type and he looked rather like Michael Douglas in Falling Down. White, short sleeved shirt, tie, brush cut - the whole "failure is not a option" kind of 60's NASA vibe. He asked me where I was from and after chatting a bit we established that we were both from the Detroit area. Somehow the conversation came around to which hospital I was born at. After I told him, he said "That was is a nice place. I woke up there after being in a coma for three days once. Tried to jump a couple of Studebakers on my motorcycle and didn't make it". At which point I decided that he was a wild man.
So I explored this a bit in the time to come. Got him talking some more this one time and learned that he used to live about two blocks from the Detroit Zoo as a kid. So of course he knew how to sneak in after closing and he'd cook around the Zoo exploring some. This one time, him and his buddies got into some booze and got hammered. They then snuck into the Zoo and climbed up on that Pharaoh enclosure shown in the picture. They then started whipping lit firecrackers at the giraffes. As you can imagine, giraffes don't take to kindly to fire crackers exploding around them so they stampeded. Which of course got the guards attention and they got chased but the guy was fat and they were able to leg it over to Rackham Golf Course next door. The cops showed up and were using the spot lights on their cruisers to try an nab them but eventually gave up as the lads had dug into the sand traps and hid themselves pretty well.
About the only giraffe story I have.