On October 19 /2012 Genevieve Judge of CBS Affiliate WINK TV based in Florida made the tweet:
"It's video that is cracking up everyone in the newsroom - Chimps throwing racoons at the St. Louis Zoo! Happy Friday http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs7u2TTPXFE "
Screen shot of her tweet:
http://i.imgur.com/N1mZF.jpg
This is the full unedited video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs7u2TTPXFE
This racoon was brutally tortured in the chimp enclosure at the St Louis Zoo. This is not nature , it is not natural. It is a zoo. It was thrown 2 times and no doubt must have suffered some head trauma. There is nothing funny about this video. I don't understand why anyone would "crack up" about it. Would you find it funny if those chimps were throwing around a dog?
Demand Genevieve Judge , CBS and Wink TV to post an apology to people who love animals and don't find any kind of cruelty to animals funny. Laughing about an animal being tortured in an artifical environment such at this zoo is cruel and distasteful.
Email
Chris Ender
Senior Vice President, Communications, CBS Television
818-655-1100
cender@cbs.com
Wink News
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