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Several sharp-eyed CPOP supporters emailed this morning with links to a story that ran on Eyewitness News and Channel 3 News last night.
My husband and I saw nothing untoward when we walked to the Zoo yesterday, so the media frenzy must have simmered down before we got there.
There's no online video on either station's website, but the Eyewitness News story says that a Memphis Zoo sign was vandalized as a protest against "future projects at the zoo including a forest trail." The Channel 3 story says that "someone upset about new projects at the zoo" spray-painted "Can Brady save the park" near the Zoo's entrance.
[Correction: The Eyewitness News link does include a video, featuring our second-favorite Memphis Zoo spokesmodel, Matt Thompson!]
Without any punctuation or context, we have no idea whether the anonymous spray-painter meant to say "Can Brady! Save the park!" or "Can Brady save the park?" but given the Zoo's reaction it's most likely the former.
Here's the Channel 3 News quote from our favorite Memphis Zoo spokesmodel, Brian Carter: "We can't keep people from defacing public property, but all we can do is continue and doing business as usual."
CPOP applauds the Memphis Zoo for having the courage to denounce the anti-social actions of people who are actually willing to deface public property in pursuit of their own selfish interests. How shocking that anyone would stoop so low...
Monday, June 23, 2008
Vandals!
Posted by Naomi Van Tol at 7:48 PM
Labels: Hypocrisy, Irony, Media, Memphis Zoo
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If it wasn't so tragic I would like to invoke the late Dr.Suess and his legendary solitary creature's angry rants: "How dare you enter the lair of the GRINCH! The impudence! The audacity! The unmitigated gall!"
What is 'vandalism'? Expressing dissent with spray-paint on pavement or razing ancient forest? One man's toxic sludge, is another man's pot-pourri!Seeing 'CAN BRADY - SAVE THE PARK' in toxic green no less (still visible a day later) the elusive grinch must have bounced off the walls of his well-padded zoo-lair, shouting out the names of all the WHOs he despised,alphebetically... such as 'Aadevarkian Abkenezerwho...I HATE YOU!' How dare those who challenge his AUTHORRRRITY!!
Have local Greenpeace members taken up the CPOP cause?
speaking of GREENPEACE. Check out what some of the animal rights activists are doing in California: they picket the homes of researchers involved in questionable research and wear customs, masks and talk to the media in broad daylight, concealing their identities. And they draw messages on the roads and driveways with chalk! Good enough for the media to read and pick up on the news but not considered vandalism!!!!
HEY KIDS! Lets go to the park! AND BRING YOUR CHALKS - YES BRING THE BIG ONES MOMMY SAID YOU CAN'T USE!
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