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Volume 4 Issue 21 | Archive Index
GATOR ROCK SHOCKER BLOCKED (PLANSEDTO PUT LIVE ALLIGATORS UNDER THE SEE-THROUGH DANCE FOOR.
Gator Rock Shocker Blocked (Plansedto Put Live Alligators Under the
See-Through Dance Foor.
Louisville Courier-Journal, Louisville Ky. January 17,2004,
Clubgoers may be feeling a bit disappointed: A proposed nightclub has nixed
its plans to put live alligators under the see-through dance floor.
"It was something that people were pretty adamant that they didn't want to
see happening," Jackie Gulbe, a representative of Louisville Metro Animal
Services (search), told the city's Courier-Journal newspaper.
Gulbe's group, local politicians and People for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals (search) joined together to oppose the pit of hungry man-eating
reptiles at the club, which is to be called Wet Willy's.
"In light of the controversy surrounding our plan to build an alligator
habitat," read a letter from one of Wet Willy's developers to Louisville
Metro Animal Services, "we have decided not to proceed with that plan."
Mark Abrams, representative for a local business association, was
sympathetic to the nightclub builders.
"They're not herpetologists," he said. "They're bar owners."
Posted 2004-01-17