Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the rebuttal podcast where we break down case law,

comedy, and chaos in the legal field. I am your host, Reb Maisel. I am feeling so ill. I don't know

if it is some kind of February 26 sickness that's going around. I feel like death. You could not

have paid me money to put makeup on for this episode.

I did a lip glass. That was all we got. Okay. So in addition to me being ill, I need to be,

oh, I don't know, amused by whatever we talk about this episode.

Or I will go insane because anything sad will probably just make me even sicker.

So without any more gabbing about how sick I am, if you're also sick, my condolences.

Let's just go through some of the cases that I want to talk about today.

That's your intro.

In 2015, a former Mirkat expert at a London Zoo was ordered to pay compensation to a monkey

handler she attacked with a wine glass in a love spat over a llama keeper.

That is a real headline.

Exquisite.

A judge at Westminster Magistrate Court said in October 2015 that Caroline Westlake,

the former Mirkat expert, must pay 800 pounds, which is $1,235, to Kate Sanders, the monkey handler, for assaulting her in a dispute

over colleague Lamakeeper, Adam Davies, who had dated both women. So why aren't we blaming

the man? Is that too feminist of me to say, why doesn't he have to pay some reparations? Why is he playing in their

faces? Why is he dating several co-workers at a zoo? Everyone knows you don't date your co-workers,

much less the ones at a zoo. I can imagine that zookeepers are very lovely people, but I can also

imagine there are some weirdos who are attracted to such a profession because

you do have to be extremely intelligent, extremely smart, and you hang out with animals all day,

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