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- From: psc@sei.cmu.edu (Peter Capell)
- Subject: Re: Fighting against animals
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.091906.14249@sei.cmu.edu>
- Sender: netnews@sei.cmu.edu (Netnews)
- Organization: Software Engineering Institute
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 09:19:06 EST
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- ...is often futile.
-
- Actually I have a couple of good animal stories: I won't vouch for their
- veracity however.
-
- The brother of one of my teacher's was kind of nuts... he had a lot of reason
- to be, considering his frequent and incapacitating epileptic (grand mal)
- seizures. He finally died of them when he was 45 years old. Anyway, this guy
- practiced no MA, except his own, which consisted of wearing a large military
- overcoat that went all the way down to the tops of his engineering boots. In
- one pocket he carried sand, and in the other an ice pick. The sand was to
- throw in the opponent's face, and the ice pick...
-
- Well, as my teacher says, his brother had a lot of what he describes as "sick
- strength" that is, even without lifting weights, his brother had an enormous
- amount of hand and arm strength. One day they visited the Pittsburgh Zoo,
- back before the days of the new and enlightened zoo. They had large cages
- with big bars and a buffer zone between the animals and the public. His
- brother became fascinated with a lion who was sleeping with his butt pushed up
- against the bars, and so he jumped into the buffer region, grabbed onto the
- lions tail right up near its hindquarters, braced himself against the wall
- with his feet and yanked. My teacher says that from a sound sleep, the lion
- has his entire body clinging to the bars facing them and growling in just a
- flash. The tail was pulled out of his brother's hands so fast that he had
- pain for days. People are insane.
-
- Then there was his story of a body builder friend who decided to test his
- strength against a chimpanzee. Apparently there do exist venues in which it
- is possible to try you luck against a chimp or orangutan. Anyway, the chimp
- was muzzled because his teeth alone would end the game, but the chimp weighed
- only about 140 pounds. The body builder was about 200. After a good deal of
- frustration with getting socked with really hard chimp knuckles, the body
- builder guy managed to get behind the chimp long enough to get a bear hug
- around his arms. As described by the BB-guy, he said "...he just screeched
- and raised his arms, I felt like my arms were ripping out of their sockets..."
-
- I just think animals are great--much more civilized than we in some ways.
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