Knowsley roof-box warning.

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Mon 20 Jul 2009 20:06
Knowsley roof-box warning. - Pugugly
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1200917/Clever-ba...l

Whoops.
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Mon 20 Jul 2009 20:12
Knowsley roof-box warning. - Westpig
why do i think that those pictures are some form of promotional set up for the safari park

picture 3 and the lady in the front passenger seat is looking up adoringly at the monkeys, certainly not overly sressed. Now i'd concede i'm no expert. But all the ladies i've ever known in my life would be horrified at their smalls being turfed out for all to see...it would be the man more likely to shrug and think 'sod it i'll buy some more'
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Mon 20 Jul 2009 20:19
Knowsley roof-box warning. - pmh3
>>>>why do i think that those pictures are some form of promotional set up for the safari park<<<<<<

because of what it says in the text?

''That's why we recently staged a demonstration to show the reality of the risks drivers face''.


I regret to say that i have now actually read a Daily Mail article for the first time in about 20 years!


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Mon 20 Jul 2009 20:15
Knowsley roof-box warning. - Mr X
This garbage has been constructed by the Parks own PR company. The pictures have been taken by a member of staff using a car owned by some one living in the park area. These have been sent to a north west news and features agency to be syndicated around the national media.

Are we really so short of news. The Mail would have been better off carrying an article pointing out that we are but 5 weeks away from the next 2pence plus vat a litre fuel price rise.
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Mon 20 Jul 2009 20:17
Knowsley roof-box warning. - Pugugly
Not Rattle's ex-car is it ?
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Mon 20 Jul 2009 20:23
Knowsley roof-box warning. - Altea Ego
Not Rattle's ex-car is it ?


More to the point, are those Rattle's undies.....
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Mon 20 Jul 2009 20:33
Knowsley roof-box warning. - JH
I'm waiting (still) for the day when the news comes on and they're honest enough to say "well nothing much happenend today so we're going to have 30 minutes of Loony Tunes" instead of padding a story of a tortoise escape over 30 minutes.

JH
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Mon 20 Jul 2009 20:36
Knowsley roof-box warning. - Pugugly
tortoise escape over 30 minutes.


They usually take longer than that - tortoises that is.
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Mon 20 Jul 2009 20:40
Knowsley roof-box warning. - JH
You're thinking of snails. Tortoises can shift. This slow moving bit is just an act before they leap in for the kill.

JH
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Mon 20 Jul 2009 20:30
Knowsley roof-box warning. - R75
Am I the only one that spotted this:

"Staff at Knowsley Safari Park demonstrate why visitors should not enter the baboon enclosure with roof boxes .........."

You lot worry me sometimes!!!!!!
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Mon 20 Jul 2009 20:33
Knowsley roof-box warning. - Pugugly
I did !I read it before posting - the aghast looking woman was a bit of a hint.
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Mon 20 Jul 2009 20:43
Knowsley roof-box warning. - b308
Quite common it seems... the monkeys at the West Mids Safari Park were quite good at removing bits before they caught something and all had to be put down a few years ago... seems there was quite a collection of car bits and pieces scattered around the enclosure... I only went through once and had a washer jet removed... always took the alternative route avoiding them after that!

Must be monkey week this week, all the chimps at Chester Zoo escaped and caused the closure of the Zoo!

Edited by b308 on 20/07/2009 at 20:44

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Mon 20 Jul 2009 20:51
Knowsley roof-box warning. - Altea Ego
I have never seen the attraction of driving through a baboon enclosure after a red faced(?) baboon wiped its bum down the centre of the windscreen leaving a disgusting brown smear.

Hateful creatures.

The should be tethered to the road so the drivers can aim at them at speed.

Edited by Altea Ego on 20/07/2009 at 20:52

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Mon 20 Jul 2009 21:22
Knowsley roof-box warning. - bell boy
hateful things i agree
they should either be in the wild or in a zoo
or on toast
not allowed to terrorise fee paying poor car drivers who think they look cute
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Mon 20 Jul 2009 23:03
Knowsley roof-box warning. - 1400ted
I rather like them, floating past on a light summer breeze, excited passengers in the basket. Something very English about the whole thing.

Sorry, re-read the post with my glasses on....it's BABOONS you're discussing !!!!!

I'll get me coat.

Ted
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Mon 20 Jul 2009 21:01
Knowsley roof-box warning. - henry k
It might just jolt some to think about how the baboons learn.

I have watched baboons, in the wild, in the Capetown area, undo car doors and help themselves to visitors food. They are not to be argued with. They have learned to block the road so you slow down and then jump on the bonnet. it is really difficult to dislodge them as they grab the wipers and the hire car bonnet suffers from their claws.

Where I stay it is a well know problem. A very serious warning to all visting Capetown.
www.monkeyland.co.za/content.php?comp=article&op=v...9
( MB makes a better picking?)

Some of the signs say "you feed them & we will shoot them.
farm1.static.flickr.com/216/501090154_dba6dafb1f.j...0

Fancy this in your car?
www.flickr.com/photos/flamed/454459731/
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Mon 20 Jul 2009 21:37
Knowsley roof-box warning. - MGspannerman
Just yesterday we visited our daughter for lunch and were discussing her stories of travelling in Asia. Apparently it is considered a treat to eat monkey, prepared by inserting its head through a central hole in the table and then locking it in place with a sliding bar. The honoured guest then gets to swing a large knife/cleaver cleaning severing the head which then becomes a core part of the ensuing feast. Makes eating the still beating heart of a cobra, as she did in Vietnam, sound positively pedestrian. In fact after that event, so she related, she had consumed a goodly slug of vodka and wandered out of the restaurant/slaughterhouse into the path of an oncoming motorbike (motoring connection) and badly burnt her leg on the exhaust. Fortunately so overcome by the vodka she didnt feel a thing. She leaves for Nicaragua and places south in the autumn. Do they have primates there?

MGs
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