A Very Funny, True Story

When I was a 18 years old and been getting into trouble for the last three years, I just remembered a true funny story that did happen. First of all, there was a big night club, called the Bamboo Ranch, it was on the outskirts of Savannah Georgia. The Ranch had big name groups and always had live music. Most of it was Country and Western, but also some hard rock. Billy Joe Royal was playing there for a while. Sometime in the fall of the year, the Ranch moved in a big cage. No one knew what it was for, we kept asking questions and no one would tell us. Then one friday night, we got together and went to the ranch, the big cage had a Gorilla in it with a sign that read, pay us a dollar and sign this wavier and if you stay in the cage for 5 mintues, you win 500.00. Shit 500.00 was a lot of money back in the early 60's. All of my friends got in there with King Kong, most of them got there asses kicked in less than a mintue. I never did it. This cage stayed at the Ranch for several weeks, we all had a great time watching than big monkey, kick the shit out of everyone. Then on saturday night, a friend of mine, named Claude, went to the ranch, Claude was a mean son of a bitch. He loved to fight and had arms that almost reached the ground, when he was standing straight up. After a lot of liquor and telling Claude about the Gorilla, poor Claude thought he could kill the monkey. Claude gave the man the dollar bill and signed the paper and jumped into the cage. Claude first punched the Gorilla in the face with a hard right and the Gorilla made a face like Moe on the three stoogies. The Gorilla came at Claude, picked him up and threw him up on the top of the cage, this Gorilla was going to kill Claude. Claude got back up and gave the Gorilla a few big rights and a couple of quick lefts and the Gorilla made a horrible sound and ran at Claude, I thought Claude was going to be killed, then Claude grabbed the Gorilla in a head lock and started beating him in his face with his right fist, the Gorilla was hollowing and scratching and trying to get out of the head lock, Claude was getting the best of the Gorilla, after hitting the Gorilla a few hundred times, the Gorilla was dazed and the man that owned the show ran in and got Claude off of his monkey, Claude had won. The man gave Claude the 500.00 and told him never to come back and fight his monkey. You had to be there, it was one of the funniest things I ever did and will see, Cat