We've mentioned Tiny, the emotional support longhorn, in these pages before - but even he is overshadowed by this beast.
A Pennsylvania man was unable to attend the game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Pittsburgh Pirates when stadium security turned away his emotional support animal: an alligator.
Joie Henney, a former hunting and fishing TV host who appeared on networks including ESPN Outdoors, has had Wally the gator for about seven years, and he had the unusually gentle reptile licensed as an emotional support animal while he was undergoing chemotherapy treatments.
Henney said Wally's visits to schools, hospitals and assisted living facilities caught the attention of the Phillies, who invited him to bring his pet to meet members of the team and their partners before Wednesday's game.
Henney said he and Wally arrived at the stadium too late for the meet-up, as the players were already warming up on the field.
"So we bought tickets and Wally has been into other baseball games, so we assumed that it was OK," Henney told CNN. "We never asked or checked with it, but they only allow service animals, such as dogs and horses, into the stadium, not ESA animals."
There's more at the link.
An "unusually gentle" emotional support alligator at a baseball game. What could possibly go wrong?
Verily, the mind doth boggle . . .
Peter
7 comments:
Many years ago, I kept reptiles as pets. One of them was a short tailed Boa Constrictor, who had a very gentle personality. My aunt, aged around 90, wanted to hold her when she and my parents came to visit us. Aunt Rhoda was entranced by the smooth feel of the snake's skin, and the boa enjoyed the warmth, flicking her tongue at my aunt's cheek.
Around the same time, I kept a Savannah Monitor named O'Grady, after a character in Jerry Pournelle's Falkenburg military sf series. I would take him on walks through the city where I lived, and he would even come into the bodegas where I would buy my newspapers. The local thugs left us alone, for some reason... Many years later I occasionally corresponded with Dr. Pournelle, and he thought the story of Monitor O'Grady was wonderful.
While I no longer keep reptiles, I keep in touch with people here in the Cincinnati area who do. One might be surprised as to how many aligators and crocodiles are living in garages and basements...
Why do they allow people to bring emotional support horses to games? Horses? Where do you put your horse while you are watching the game? This whole thing is out of control. It started out as guide dogs for the blind and has become insane.
I completely agree with heresolong... it HAS become insane.
With my wife of almost fifty years dead and gone and my only son who has become a liberal/socialist/communist and who now considers me a:
Racist/bigoted/transphobic/redneck/evil and ignorant knuckle-dragging white male, I'm grateful I will (maybe) wake up dead one of these fine mornings and find myself on the next step of the ladder of life (assuming there is a next step) and St. Peter - or whowhatever - greets us at the Pearly Gates will read from that big book we've all heard about and lets me know I wasn't that bad afterall.
Or perhaps I'll just be dead and no longer have to watch a civilization I help build get destroyed by fools.
And you thought that the guy who claimed his dog wouldn't bite was untrustworthy.
Apparently the alligator was too small and too docile... Bigger and less docile and they would let him do anything he wants!
Emotional...support...alligator?! Hahahahahaha *dies, while cackling and wheezing gleefully*
I’d like an emotional support (fully grown) silver back gorilla, just for when they ask me “where will it sit?”
And I can reply “anywhere it wants!”
Yours Aye
Ex Bootneck
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