"REGGIE THE ALLIGATOR" gets his "HOME CONFINEMENT"
For us who remember "BORN FREE" or "MUTUAL OF OMAHA'S "WILD KINGDOM". Today was a moment that would of brought a tear to Marlin Perkin's eyes or sent the Lions running for the hills.
"REGGIE THE ALLIGATOR", the reptile who gave Councilwomen Janice Hahn her chance to challenge Councilman Tom LaBonge for "COUNCIL VISUAL BUFFOONERY". Was shone the way to his new moot today at the L.A. Zoo.
Besides LaBonge and Hahn tripping over themselves for "FACE TIME" and "SOUND BITES". Recreation and Parks officials staged a press event worthy of the fame that "REGGIE" has achieved.
The best part was seeing multiple officials crowd together to carry "REGGIE" to the edge of his new water hole. Then even better was them getting away from "REGGIE'S PEARLY WHITES". Too bad "REGGIE" could not get his own "BITES", in the target rich environment.
Labels: janice hahn, reggie the alligator
Posted by Red Spot in CD 14 @ 8/09/2007 01:46:00 PM
21 Comments:
It's a good thing that this wasn't a City Council day, because wouldn't you bet everything you owned that Hahn and LaBonge would ditch work in order to fight for face time at Reggie's event.
At least Tom is a nice guy, doesn't backstab his colleagues, and his "visual buffoonery" seems sincere.
Mexico Apologizes for Jeers at Miss USA Rachel Smith
LOS ANGELES —
A Mexican tourism official issued an apology for the jeers aimed at Miss USA in May during an international beauty contest in Mexico City.
Rachel Smith, the U.S. entrant into the Miss Universe competition, was booed by some of the audience after she slipped and fell during an evening-gown competition. Her fall and the audience reaction briefly attracted international attention.
Gabriel Szekely, chief of staff for Mexico's tourism department, wrote in a letter that he regretted the "unfortunate events" of the pageant.
"We understand the concern of the people of the United States about the incorrect behavior of a small group that attended the event," Szekely wrote. "We apologize for the inconvenience, and be sure that Miss Rachel Smith will always be welcome in Mexico."
The letter was addressed to Los Angeles homeless activist Ted Hayes. It came after Hayes and a second activist, David Hernandez, complained to Ruben Beltran, the city's consul general of Mexico.
It has been forwarded to Smith.
The audience's reaction to Smith was thought to reflect Mexico's sometimes tense relationship with the U.S. The pageant was held as lawmakers in the U.S. were debating immigration reform.
Smith was the fourth runner-up at the pageant. Miss Japan, Riyo Mori, went on to win the crown.
In Your Corner....
The Daily News reports that Hahn had two busloads of her district residents and hence paid supporters, taken to visit Reggie the alligator at the zoo, "because he missed his old friends."
Yeah, right -- how much did those two buses and drivers cost us taxpayers, for another of her self-aggrandizing photo ops? At least LaBonge, who represents the zoo in his district, presumably drove himself and didn't cost us anything.
And this, at a time when Chick just scolded the council for fiscal responsibility.
Where's the accountability to the taxpayers?
I was surprised the Mayor and city council members missed this media rich opportunity to tell us how the city has finally arrested this menace to society after spending over $180,000.00 dollars on his capture. Even Steve Irwin aka the Crocodile Hunter could not capture Reggie the Renegade.
What criminal charges has Rocky Dellgadillo filed against Reggie the Renegade?
The residents of the city of Los Angeles can finally sleep peacefully tonight!
Maybe the taxpayers can adopt Reggie to take a bite out of our wildly spending politicos, and our toilet-cleaning mayor.
A Mexican tourism official apologizing to a homeless person, instead of the Miss USA pageant or the person jeered, is perfect in its absurdity. Can't top that one.
5:18: Don't worry, Janice Hahn didn't miss that opportunity. She devoted a long presentation during a city council meeting to laud herself for overseeing this heroic capture, and showed a video that her office produced (again, at taxpayer dollars and time) featuring none other than herself, victorious as the wrangler.
She did remember to bring in the actual people who worked on Reggie's capture, and had them arrayed admiringly behind her, but forgot to let them speak or take any credit. Hahn, forget any chance to take credit for anything?
Two buses for her favorite gator ??
The sad result of this is that it will just encourage her to spend more time on meaningless self-promotional events as opposed to anything substantive.
......like running for Mayor in 2009 ??
Meaningless? Come on, the Gator was lonely, and he apparently told her so. Have a heart!
Sounds like "BROTHER JAMES"
That photo is a crocodile?
refer comments to Google
I live in Hahn's district, but no one asked me if I want a free field trip to the zoo. what do you have to do to get invited? I'm retired and bored and I'll wave to Reggie and even grin a lot.
Hey rubes, that's not Reggie.
that is right. get this they never actually caught reggie. they subsituted an alligator shipped in from Port St lucie florida.
You mean Hahn spent our tax dollars on busing in two busloads of people to greet an "old friend" they'd never seen before, because it's a phony Reggie? An imposter? But it can't be, because he told Janice he wants to see his old human friends, and he couldn't have been lying, could he?
Can you believe those two brought up Reggie the Alligator again, and Tom Janice's Tool, tried to get the whole council to give her a huge round of applause for this tremendous feat; she then of course took the bait and the floor, and rambled on trying to be cute, eliciting some titters from the rest of the council.
Made me lose what little respect I'd had for Tommy -- he really must be as dumb as he seems.
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