it's raining crooked necked giraffes

[whynotsmile99]

Very sad. Gemina was awesome.


SANTA BARBARA, Calif.—Santa Barbara Zoo's crooked-necked giraffe Sweet Gemina has died at 21.

The giraffe, popular with visitors because of crooked-neck abnormality, was euthanized by zoo officials because of declining health, most notably a lack of appetite.

Results of a necropsy won't be available for weeks, but zoo officials say they don't believe her ailing health was a result of her neck condition.

Gemina was born in 1986 at the San Diego Wild Animal Park to Ginger and Black Jack, both of them Barring giraffes. Gemina arrived at the Santa Barbara Zoo a year later.

Her crooked neck began appearing around the age of 3. The cause of the abnormality wasn't known.

[summerkid]

gross.

[miscorrections]

Noooo! That giraffe was an integral part of my childhood.

[kreutz2112]

It looks like it ate a giant tetris piece.

[hawkingvsreeve]

This was the first thing that came to mind.

[caco0283]

this is really sad....i have some great memories with that giraffe

[gaypalmsprings]

[marooko]

This was the first thing that came to mind.

that's funny as hell.

[thelastgreatman]

That was the only throat that could ever accept my entire manhood. Such a curse to be blessed with all this, only to have it make a harsh 35 degree turn eight feet out.

[summerkid]

I saw Randy posted in this and immediately knew it was going to be a deep throat joke.

[thelastgreatman]

Fucking duh.

[woogie846]

I went to the Santa Barbara zoo like 2 months ago and saw him.

So sad...

[rage patton]

Fucking Nazis.

Who the fuck do they think the are? Euthanizing giraffes. I saw we euthanize them.

[thelastgreatman]

Yeah, they should have let the giraffe slowly starve to death like decent people!


Jerkoffs...

[BROKENDOLL]

The line to suck my cock when they announce the lineup forms HERE->

That was the only throat that could ever accept my entire manhood. Such a curse to be blessed with all this, only to have it make a harsh 35 degree turn eight feet out.

Sounds alot like last year's WILL CALL fiasco. First, this line, then, that line...

[gaypalmsprings]

[BROKENDOLL]

I actually clicked on that GPS, thinking a photo would show up...Duh, now I get it..."Tripod."

[blakely]

It looks like it ate a giant tetris piece.

hahahahahaha

[goodgrl]

YIKES!
I had never heard or seen such a thing.

[noisemachine]

That was an awesome giraffe. Only saw it once, but it was the only one there coming up to the observation deck thing. Pretty friendly it seemed. Too bad, no other good reasons to go to the SB zoo.

[Trick Loves The Kids]

Is the SB zoo really that lame? I remember it being cool, but then the last time I was there I was young and the train ride really excited me.

The last time I went to the LA Zoo was in my senior year of high school. I took my girlfriend at the time because I thought it would be romantic but it was just very hot and all the animals were asleep or lazy because it was the summer.

[roberto73]

Is the SB zoo really that lame? I remember it being cool, but then the last time I was there I was young and the train ride really excited me.

I went a few months ago, fully expecting it to suck. I was pleasantly surprised. It's not world-class or anything, but for tourists and kids it's not bad.

[brando4n82]

Noooo! That giraffe was an integral part of my childhood.

serious.

a moment of silence please............................................ ........................................






thank you

[thefunkylama]

Also according to other reports I'm reading about Gimpneck Giraffe, apparently 21 years old is, like, 80 in giraffe years.

Not that it's less sad that she died, you know, but at least she had a good long life. All the other giraffes treated her like normal.

[samiksha]

I went a few months ago, fully expecting it to suck. I was pleasantly surprised. It's not world-class or anything, but for tourists and kids it's not bad.

it's the best zoo i've ever been to! it's not hard to be better than detroit.

[woogie846]

The Santa Barbara Zoo is very small, which is good in some ways and not so good in others.

They don't have any big apes, which was a bummer.

[miscorrections]

It's ok as far as zoos go, and it's not the most depressing one I've ever been to, so I guess there's that.

[HowToDisappear]

Does the Atascadero Zoo still exist? That was pretty depressing. Chain link cages with coyotes and black bears and a mountain lion and stuff.

[miscorrections]

Yeah, the Charles Paddock Zoo gets my vote for dreariest zoo ever. It's still around and still confining sad animals in ~5 square feet of space.

[gaypalmsprings]

The zoo in Clovis, NM, is pretty sad.