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A Betoota Heights father has been chastised today by keepers at the Santos Presents™️ Royal Betoota Zoological Park for trying to upset the chimpanzees today while taking his son around the facility.
Wavell Jones, a 33-year-old systems engineer at South Betoota Polytechnic College, was seen making faces at the chimpanzees despite signage telling patrons to avoid making eye contact, showing their teeth in an aggressive manor and hollering at the animals.
Mr Jones was observed doing all three at once.
Witnesses say the chimpanzees were incredibly upset by the time their keepers found Mr Jones imitating their screams and goading them to cross the moat and fight him.
Security was called down to remove Mr Jones where he protested, telling the guards that he only wanted to liven things up and that the chimps were just “laying about on the grass doing fuck all” and “wanted to see them in action”.
The news comes after this masthead’s editor, Clancy Overell, lost his appeal in the Queensland Magistrate’s Court late last year to overturn his life ban for throwing lit cigarettes into the orangutan enclosure.
One of the male orangutans, Brett (a gift from the people of Malaysia), developed a strong nicotine habit as a result was forced to undergo therapy to kick the habit.
It’s understood by The Advocate that Mr Jones was arrested by Queensland Police for disturbing the peace and upsetting a great ape upon his removal from the premises and his partner refused to help him in any way as the constables let him away.
More to come.
