Amusement Park Sued Over Lonely, Cigarette-Smoking, Soda-Drinking Chimpanzee

[Oldiesmann]

You'd think this sort of thing would have ended decades ago, but somehow this is still going on... http://gawker.com/amusement-park-sued-over-lonely-cigarette-smoking-sod-1743177745

[rhyano]

Interesting story...

[Tr0y]

Hopefully that (pending on if successful) money goes to the chimp, and not someone trying to make a quick buck.

[The Interpreter]

WHAT money? The relief sought is removal of the chimp to an animal sanctuary. Attorneys' fees may or may not also be sought.

[Pez]

The Train Stop bar, not far downriver from the Kings Island property, had a smoking chimp named Sam until sometime in the 90's when he was sent to a sanctuary.  Locals still refer to the place as the Monkey Bar.  I thought the 90's was way too recent for those kinds of things to still be going on.  When I first heard about a bar that used to have a smoking money caged up for peoples amusement, I assumed that it ended no later than the 70's.  How the heck does a bar wind up with a chimp in the first place?

[Tanna]

You're not the only one, Pez. I thought this went out after Lancelot Link quit filming.

[Oldiesmann]

I remember reading about that chimp at the Train Stop Inn a while back.