Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Gus, the drunken camel


EG passed this news story on to me, courtesy of Yahoo news.

Guinness guzzling camel crashes Xmas party

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Staff at an Irish riding school were forced to postpone festivities after Gus the camel chomped his way through 200 mince pies and several cans of Guinness intended for their Christmas party.

Gus, starring in the riding school's Santa's Magical Animal Kingdom show, helped himself to the feast while staff were getting changed for the party.


"Gus found his way out of his pen and helped himself," Robert Fagan, owner of the Mullingar Equestrian Centre in central Ireland, told Reuters.


The 11-year-old camel, originally from Morocco, cracked open six cans of Ireland's famous stout with his teeth after the door to his stall was left open.


Gus appeared well after Monday evening's feeding frenzy, Fagan said, adding: "We were all looking forward to it, but you couldn't blame him. He's really a very gentle, docile sort of camel."

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I find this most interesting, especially considering Dee's sighting of Sir Gus...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It may be really hard to tell from my photo, but Gus really is a camel. He's a dromedary. He is owned by the Shriner's Camel Herders.

I haven't heard of him making a break for Ireland. I think something like that might make the local news. LOL

200 pies? Sheesh, that Irish camel is going to have one heck of a bellyache.