Interesting tidbit via the MonsterBlog where they are having a contest allowing people to vote on the worst summer job from among five candidates. Worth the time to take a look and vote, as exhibited by part of the story below:
About halfway through the summer, I got promoted to work the end gate at the Safari. My responsibilities were laid out by my manager. He dropped me off at the end gate of the Safari and asked Jose to show me the ropes — or the bat, that is.
You see, the end gate was a passage to the real world for the monkeys and baboons. The inner fence was controlled electronically as cars drove up to it to exit the final portion of the safari. About 30 yards after that gate was my new post. The gate remained open until the safari closed. Here, Jose showed me how the baboons and monkeys would try to make a break for it by riding atop a car, under a truck or just plain rush my gate. I was trained on how to use the Baboon Beater — a three-foot-long, six-inch-round bat — to dissuade our fuzzy friends from exiting.
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