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18 Tigers, 17 Lions, 8 Bears, 3 Cougars, 2 Wolves, 1 Baboon, 1 Macaque, and 1 Man Dead in Ohio
Your longread of the day / week / month / year? GQ’s Chris Heath brings you the astonishing true story of the Zanesville zoo massacre—which began when a depressed, desperate man named Terry Thompson turned loose his 56 exotic animals in rural Ohio, touching off a mass slaughter that was covered around the world. Below, just a very brief portion of the story from its opening section. The full piece is here. Read it. We solemnly swear you will not be disappointed.
Inside the barn Sam Kopchak locked the doors, then telephoned his mother, sitting in front of the TV about a hundred yards away back in the house. There was, he told her, “a major problem.” They’d long known that there were strange and unusual animals kept out of sight over the brow of the hill around Thompson’s house—often they could hear lions bellow and roar. “We didn’t have any idea how many there were,” Mrs. Kopchak would later reflect. But they assumed that these two runaways must have come from there, so the first thing Mrs. Kopchak did was to dial her neighbor’s number.
No answer.
Only then did she call 911 and alert the world. She sounded calm when she reported what her son had seen, as though there was really nothing too strange or alarming about a lion and a bear running loose on an October afternoon in Ohio. But maybe she was a little rattled. When the 911 operator asked for her first name, Mrs. Kopchak answered “Dolores,” the name on her birth certificate but one she never uses: “I’ve been called Dolly for eighty-four years.”
Her son remained trapped in the barn. From there, looking through a north-facing window, he watched the menagerie grow. Along came a wolf. And a second bear, this one much larger than the first. And there was the lion he had seen before, now pacing back and forth. And also a lioness, anxiously scuttering around. “And then,” he says, “I saw a tiger. I’m telling you, the lion is bad enough, and the lioness is bad enough, and the wolf is bad, and the bear, but…don’t be around the tiger. The tigers are actually bigger than the lions if they’re fully grown. He started snarling, and went after the horses.”
[Photographs byTim Flach]
This is a great read if you got some time. Click through the link for the full story.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyzapcNDPW1qe6vsbo1_500.jpg)
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18 Tigers, 17 Lions, 8 Bears, 3 Cougars,
2 Wolves, 1 Baboon, 1 Macaque,
and 1 Man Dead in OhioYour longread of the day / week / month / year? GQ’s Chris Heath brings you the astonishing true story of the Zanesville zoo massacre—which began when a depressed, desperate man named Terry Thompson turned loose his 56 exotic animals in rural Ohio, touching off a mass slaughter that was covered around the world. Below, just a very brief portion of the story from its opening section. The full piece is here. Read it. We solemnly swear you will not be disappointed.
Inside the barn Sam Kopchak locked the doors, then telephoned his mother, sitting in front of the TV about a hundred yards away back in the house. There was, he told her, “a major problem.” They’d long known that there were strange and unusual animals kept out of sight over the brow of the hill around Thompson’s house—often they could hear lions bellow and roar. “We didn’t have any idea how many there were,” Mrs. Kopchak would later reflect. But they assumed that these two runaways must have come from there, so the first thing Mrs. Kopchak did was to dial her neighbor’s number.
No answer.
Only then did she call 911 and alert the world. She sounded calm when she reported what her son had seen, as though there was really nothing too strange or alarming about a lion and a bear running loose on an October afternoon in Ohio. But maybe she was a little rattled. When the 911 operator asked for her first name, Mrs. Kopchak answered “Dolores,” the name on her birth certificate but one she never uses: “I’ve been called Dolly for eighty-four years.”
Her son remained trapped in the barn. From there, looking through a north-facing window, he watched the menagerie grow. Along came a wolf. And a second bear, this one much larger than the first. And there was the lion he had seen before, now pacing back and forth. And also a lioness, anxiously scuttering around. “And then,” he says, “I saw a tiger. I’m telling you, the lion is bad enough, and the lioness is bad enough, and the wolf is bad, and the bear, but…don’t be around the tiger. The tigers are actually bigger than the lions if they’re fully grown. He started snarling, and went after the horses.”
[Photographs byTim Flach]
This is a great read if you got some time. Click through the link for the full story.
It’s rare that Dailyseinfeld posts a scene I don’t remember but this was a breath of fresh air. Love this blog for it’s simplicity.
Jerry and Elaine sit side by side on a subway train. They’re both reading newspapers, when something occurs to Jerry.
JERRY: You know at the movies, they show that little ad for the concession stand?
ELAINE: Where the cartoon candy’s dancing and the Milk Dud’s playing the banjo?
JERRY: He’s wailing on that banjo.
ELAINE: Yeah.
JERRY: I just don’t understand the raisinettes.
ELAINE: The sax player?
JERRY: Yeah.
ELAINE: Yeah.
JERRY: The box of raisinettes runs up to the concession stand, buys another box of raisinettes.
ELAINE: So?
JERRY: Box of raisinettes eating another box of raisinettes? It’s perverse.
ELAINE: HE’s not gonna eat them. He’s buying ‘em for his Pepsi girlfriend.
JERRY: Why’s he dating a Pepsi? They’re not having children.
ELAINE: He’s a musician.
JERRY: Musicians. Get a real job.(via The English Patient)
No new video today due to the holidays, so instead, enjoy our favorite video of 2011!
YEAH! YES! A million times, YES!
Got to the end of Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. this morning and had to literally stop exercising to finish the last chapter.
I haven’t been moved by a novel that much in a long time.
They may refer to his work as slapstick, black humor or satirical, but Vonnegut Jr. knew how to lay down the serious when it counts.
I would definitely recommend this novel.
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That’s me, man. F*cking Work Horse!
“Why does every black actor gotta rap some? I don’t know. All I know is I’m the best one.” —
-Childish Gambino
CAMP dropped this week and as much as I absolutely love the album and everything Childish Gambino (Donald Glover) does, this just isn’t true.
In fact, Glover isn’t even the best black actor that dropped an album THIS WEEK.
As much as he would probably like us to forget, Drake (Aubrey Graham) is easily the best Actor-turned-Rapper in the game. Drake was a key actor in the Canadian High School drama, Degrassi: The Next Generation, before blowing up as a rapper.
Harvest Moon