Bam! Slammed his camera down, his mallet. He goes, “Excuse me, I’m a judge here. “I’m a federal judge, “but I’m not quite understanding the two “three-year-old males and the breeding with that. “I may be wrong, but I don’t think “the males can breed each other like that.” Courtroom… Read More
“Do you understand now?” “Yes sir, understood it.” And now, judge, “what’s going on?… Read More
“What’s what’s the objection here?” “Well, we’re bringing our two pandas, “we’re bringing two male pandas here.” I can’t remember. I’m sorry. I wish I remembered. Two or three years old. I don’t remember. Maybe it was a year old. I don’t, maybe it was two or three years. I… Read More
“This is a panda bear in this court room from now on. Read More
“Not the Latin name of the animal, okay?… Read More
“It’s a Panda bear.” Being nice, but firm, “It’s a Panda bear.” The guy starts off again for about two minutes. He used the Latin name again. Bam. He goes, “Excuse me, I said it once. “I don’t intend to say it again. “It’s a Panda bear to me, “and… Read More
Make a long story short, went to court, right?… Read More
All of a sudden, ’cause people know about this thing. I walked in there, I had my tie on, and I’m real nervous, ’cause I don’t know what the heck I’ve done wrong. All of a sudden then, the trial starts, Judge Canary gets it, slams this thing down, he… Read More
Their attorney goes, “Your honor, the.” he did the giant panda in Latin, by the way, used the Latin name for the animal. Okay, I don’t even know what it is, that shows you how dumb I am. Pandarus, whatever, who knows what it is. I’m just being funny right… Read More
And he liked me, and that kind of stuff. But that made no difference who he liked, you know, the trial’s, a trial. Read More
So it goes to the trial date, like five days before the panda, we’ve already built the thing, spent quite some money, you understand?… Read More
The community’s excited. All of a sudden they want to file suit and stop it. What did we do? Obviously it went to court. So the pandas I think were already on the way to the airport, to be staying there for awhile. Read More
I said, “Jack, I’ll help you.” I never been in a courtroom, okay?… Read More
Judge Canary was a federal judge. I think he’s 80 something years old. He passed, a federal judge can pass them on the bench. And so I knew Judge Canary. He wasn’t a friend or anything, But I just, he loved canaries, so I’d take him a stuffed canary or… Read More
And we just had a lot of fun, you know?… Read More
Why, how’d the Columbus Zoo, by the way, I’ll get into it, start their conservation fund?… Read More
Because of giant, the little pandas. And real quickly. Yes, about a week before they were to come here. I think it was a week or 10 days. I think it was the World Wildlife Fund. I don’t remember, you can check out the archives, and change this. I’ll apologize… Read More
And we had attorney here, John Kuwas, who’s been our board for 30 years. Read More
I guess I can’t add. Anyway, that was a big thing. Columbus went in and spent 10, actually it’s like a world’s fair. They spent a lot of money, hundreds of millions of dollars on that world, on this thing being celebrated here, our anniversary of our country. So I… Read More
“You know, for our 1992.” And I didn’t think anything about it. ’cause other zoological parks had done it, but it came to little old Columbus Zoo back in 1992, do it, and I think what happened was, I think the AZA knew that there’s a little old Columbia Zoo… Read More