Study: "Marijuana is the safer choice for zoo-going trouble-makers"

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... most people are more than a few tokes away from busting into the zoo and stealing crocodiles ... But ... this young man snuck into the zoo high on marijuana, successfully captured two crocodiles and a monkey, and escaped undetected. It's .. impressive .. compared to the carnage that ensues when drunken zoo-goers attempt to interact with the animals.

A victim of the recent San Francisco tiger attack was at twice the legal limit when he taunted the tiger until it leapt over the wall and attacked him. A drunken Lithuanian was hospitalized in May after climbing into a Giraffe exhibit and getting trampled. Then there's the intoxicated Chinese man who entered the Panda cage at the Beijing Zoo to "hug" the Panda and ended up biting the bear when it attacked him. Not to mention the drunken Ukrainian who tried to show off for friends by taking on a caged grizzly and was nearly killed, or the corpse found in the grizzly den at the Belgrade Zoo during an annual beer festival.

Clearly .. marijuana is the safer choice for zoo-going trouble-makers.

http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle_blog/2008/jan/23/idiot_steals_two_crocodiles_and_