Zoo chimp settles on porn channel
A chimpanzee at a Spanish zoo spends much of her day watching human pornography. Primatologist Pablo Herreros says his goal in giving Gina the chimp a television set was to provide her with mental stimulation. Within days, Herreros says, Gina was not only “using the remote control perfectly well,” but using it exclusively “to access the porn channel.” Whether human or non-human, Herreros concludes, all “primates possess an intense sexual life.”
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A California man has paid off a $14,000 property-tax bill using only dollar bills and loose change. Larry Gasper says he wasn’t deliberately trying to inconvenience county officials with the unorthodox payment, which he transported to county offices in a wheelbarrow—causing the clerks’ jaws to drop. It’s just that he’s very short of money, and had to scrape up the payment by gathering up all his change, taking small donations from various friends who “offered to help a bit,” and then tapping “my grandkids’ piggy banks and my daughters’ piggy banks.”