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Camel punching in Vallejo leads to arrests
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Monday, May 05, 2008
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VALLEJO — A man has been arrested for allegedly punching a camel on a dare at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom.

Vallejo police say 24-year-old Christopher Allen was dared by a friend to enter a restricted at the theme park where the camel was kept, and punch it.
He did, police say, and got arrested for his troubles.

Police say Allen was detained by park security, but soon escaped and ran from the park with his friends.
Police finally caught up with Allen and arrested him and the driver of his getaway car, Chrissy Thatcher.

Click here to read the full article from the Vallejo Times-Herald
11 comment(s)

CHACHA wrote on May 13, 2008 3:21 PM:

" hahaha! poor camel, stupid kid. and it probably was for a utube video! "

funnyme wrote on May 6, 2008 12:11 PM:

" I am surprised he got close enough to the camel to even punch him.

AREYOUSERIOUS,
You made me laugh again (tax for fixing roads, first).
Thanks for your humor and thank you for serving our counrty.

"

The Duke of Dukey wrote on May 6, 2008 10:13 AM:

" The moral of the story is this: choose your friends carefully, stay out of Vallejo, and think independently. It was chicken to punch a camel (dromidary?) Is that a mixed metaphor? "

savetycoon wrote on May 6, 2008 8:15 AM:

" first thing, Tell me why a 24 year old is still playing dare, secondly arent they mature enough not to play it on an animal..
Hopefully this inncedent embarreses the he** out of them so they never try to do this again.

Their just stupid, and they need to grow up "

hudds5 wrote on May 6, 2008 6:25 AM:

" 24 years old and still giving in to dares? I dare him to do the same to a Tiger! "

AREYOUSERIOUS wrote on May 6, 2008 4:12 AM:

" I remeber in 1990 when I was in the Gulf War, I watched a secuity police officer stick a lit "camel" cigarette into a camel's nose. The camel had been hanging out at the gates to our tent city for about a week and I guess the sgt. got fed up with the camel.

When he put that cigarette in the camel's nose the camel reared back inhaling the whole cigarette. Then, what can only be described as an epileptic fit, the camel began coughing and snorting. He shot that cigarette butt out of his nose, spit at the sgt, and then snotted and puked all over the sgt! It was the funniest thing I have ever seen! The camel gathered it's cool and walked away. That SP was covered in mucous from the camel! The Col. that I was with directed another secuity officer to take the sgt into custody. He was placed under arrest and lost TWO stripes for his behavior! Now that was even funnier! "

Baraki wrote on May 5, 2008 10:30 PM:

" I don't know, chunk -- I hear camel spit can be pretty nasty. "

napasfinest wrote on May 5, 2008 8:02 PM:

" Did anyone else notice the hilarity of the headline? Whoever made that headline definitely knew the underlying meaning. "

chunk wrote on May 5, 2008 7:12 PM:

" You should've punched a kangaroo. At least they'll fight back. "

Baraki wrote on May 5, 2008 5:45 PM:

" $10 says the dare was so they could make a youtube video. "

B-Side wrote on May 5, 2008 4:56 PM:

" Stupid is- is stupid does. "

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