Employees Allege Firings For Not Exposing Breasts To Gorilla

POSTED: 1:24 pm PST February 18, 2005
UPDATED: 1:45 pm PST February 18, 2005

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- Two former workers from the Woodside-based Gorilla Foundation have filed a lawsuit, alleging they were fired after refusing to bare their breasts to a famous 300-pound ape.

The two former employees -- Nancy Alperin and Kendra Keller -- said they were pressured last year to expose themselves to a gorilla named Koko in order to bond with her. They refused and were later fired.

Koko is well-known for her unusual abilities to communicate with her human handlers. The Gorilla Foundation claims Koko knows more than 1,000 words in American Sign Language.

Both women are seeking monetary damages, alleging sexual discrimination and wrongful termination.

A law firm representing the Woodside-based Gorilla Foundation says it is still reviewing the lawsuit.

i dont see the point

Source?
It's not good netiquite to quote an article without a reacharound and providing the link.
Not saying the story is bullshit or anything, it's just proper to provide a link. :)

If this is for real, I'd love to read/hear the specifics. Purely from an anthropological standpoint, of course! :ph34r:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GOR...EMPLATE=DEFAULT

http://www.whittierdailynews.com/Stories/0...26%257E,00.html

Yeah I saw that on our local news last night too.

I find it hard to believe that anyone would ask these women to do these sort of things.

1.) How could they expect to not get caught or told on?
2.) If a pesron is that sick and distuerbed, this would not have been the first time

those are my thoughts, so I would at first glance think someone is trying to extort some money, or bring themselves some fame ... IMHO

I just wanna know who taught Koko how to sign "show your tits"....

No shit! :biglaugh:

And ... does Koko have beads?

Sounds like 100% Sexual DiscriminAPEtion.

No shit! :biglaugh:

And ... does Koko have beads? [/b][/quote]
LMAO

Yet another ridiculous situation that will help the world to continue to laugh at us...

:rolleyes:

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh shit.

That was so bad it hurts.









[That's not to say I won't use it when I tell my girlfriend about this whole thing ... ] :D