You can’t keep a creative man down
Ken Allen, a 250-pound orangutan, climbed up his retaining wall at the San Diego Zoo and escaped his exhibit. He walked down a public path toward crowds of weekday tourists, stopping to look at the other animals as if he were a visitor before being led back to his cage. It would not be the last time the ape escaped, but instead of a PR disaster, for a brief time in San Diego, Ken Allen became a folk hero. After that first escape, zoo officials ramped up security in his pen—an open area with a jungle gym made of utility poles and a large moat in the back. Behind the moat was a massive wall, which they extended 4 feet—but it wasn’t enough to contain Ken Allen. Zookeepers found him in front of another ape enclosure, tossing rocks at Otis, a fellow orangutan with whom he was “not known to be amiable.” Zookeepers probably should have seen his knack for escaping earlier. Born in captivity, Ken Allen got his name from the two zookeepers, Ken Willingham and Ben Allen, who rescued him from his also-captive mother after she attempted to smother him. As an adolescent, he would regularly unscrew the bolts of his cage and explore his nursery at night, returning in the morning and putting it back together before his keepers arrived. The escapes continued. That August, Ken Allen found a crowbar in his pen that workers had left behind. He tossed it to another orangutan, Vicki, who used it to pry open a window and let Ken out. After that incident, he was moved temporarily to an indoor pen with “a black-and-white television with one working channel,” according to the Times, while zookeepers increased the security of his original exhibit.
Meanwhile, zookeepers struggled to contain Ken Allen. They surrounded the moat’s wall with electric wire and hired rock climbers to look for potential escape routes. Two years later, he escaped again. This time, his enclosure’s water pump clogged, causing the moat to dry up. Before anyone noticed, according to a Los Angeles Times article, he “walked across the dry moat and hoisted himself onto rocks outside the enclosure.” Once again, he wandered around the zoo, posing for photos with tourists. Desperate, zookeepers added female orangutans to his pen, thinking they could distract him. “We gave him four more, friends hoping to turn his wanderlust into just lust.” Ken Allen was a bad influence on his new friends. A few months later, two of them, Jane and Kumang, found a 5-foot-long squeegee left behind by window washers and used it to climb up the wall. Jane was found walking on the path near the flamingo exhibit.
Creative humor:
My girlfriend said I was too creative
So I just unimagined her.
Apple needs to come up with a new creative naming scheme for their products…
You know what iMean?
Her tinder bio said she’s very creative and imaginative.
So I didn’t text. She can imagine our chats. And probably imagine better fantasies
than me. She can create me as a billionaire…
I wonder how far our relationship has gone.
Not feeling creative?
Open up a gym membership and see how many excuses you can come up with not to go.
July 5th Birthdays
1983 – Tuba Buyukustun, 1963 – Edie Falco, 1968 – Susan Wojcicki, 1970 – Kathryn Erbe
1992 – Jason Dolley, 1988 – Ji Chang Wook, 1991 – Soovaj Pancholl, 1951 – Huey Lewis