We begin with the most important point: namely that all students and llamas involved are safe and sound. With that said, here is what happens when teens in America get drunk:
THE NYU student who was rescued after being trapped for almost two days in a space between two Lower Manhattan buildings told cops he was drinking at a party and later slipped and fell into the gap, police sources said.
Asher Vongtau, 19, wound up wedged between a NYU dormitory at 80 Lafayette St. and a next-door garage. He suffered broken ribs and a fractured skull, police sources said.
University officials said he was reported missing at 12:30 a.m. Sunday by a student. Vongtau was last seen leaving the dormitory about 7 a.m. Saturday.At 4:30 p.m. Sunday, the university received a report that Vongtau may have gone to the roof, NYU spokesman John Beckman said.
The search area was expanded after a check atop the roof yielded nothing. Beckman said a cop found an iPhone on a fire escape with a photo of the missing student on it. “He hears the student moan and then he called the NYPD and the FDNY,” Beckman said.
French teens, by way of comparison:
A group of five French teenagers have been arrested after drunkenly stealing a circus llama named Serge and taking on him on a tour of Bordeaux via the city’s tram system.
The animal was abducted by the youths early on Thursday morning after they wandered into a closed-down circus. The quintet had recently exited a club in Bordeaux, a city renowned as the country’s wine capital.
“We went in and played with the animals,” one of the five, named Mathieu, told BFM TV. “We ended up taking a llama with us.”
The group had originally set their hearts on taking a zebra home, but after the beast proved too stubborn they happily settled for the more amenable Serge…
Serge the Llama himself has even leapt to the group’s defence – although this is Serge Lama, a French singer who also hails from the region.
“It’s a joke that ended well,” Lama told BFM TV. “We’re so used to seeing unfunny things whereas this has helped break the ambience of moroseness [here in France].”
“That’s what we need right now.”
Everything is real, and also nothing is real.
Tags: binge drinking, llamas, teens, the circus, the french, things that get trapped in walls
I went to NYU and lived in that Lafayette Street dorm and let me just say that nothing about this story surprises me.
“It’s a joke that ended well,” Lama told BFM TV. “We’re so used to seeing unfunny things whereas this has helped break the ambience of moroseness [here in France].”
I really hope he was also smoking a cigarette at the time, to really make it feel like a French stereotype statement.
I’m pretending the statement was really issued by Henri, Le Chat Noir.
Or Jerry Orbach as Lumiere.
Well, (some) French teens grow up into French Women, which, as we all know, are perfect in every way and never have problems…
Recently my older brothers decided to enter a camel pen with a sign “Do not enter, camel bites,” and then proceeded to get chased around by a giant camel who coincidentally bit them and made it near impossible to exit the pen. They were not drunk, however, so it may mean bad things for my gene pool.
Well, now I just want a series of books on the adventures of Serge the Amenable Llama.
You could watch the anime series Shirokuma Cafe, which features an amenable llama (though his name isn’t Serge)!
I’m just delighted that there’s any story out there about an amenable llama. Also, that your avatar is a llama (who may or may not be amenable).
everyone needs to watch shirokuma cafe. though some of the Japanese humor may be a bit foreign. llama is the best character (tied with sloth).
You had me at “drunkenly stealing a circus llama named Serge and taking on him on a tour of Bordeaux via the city’s tram system”. (Also, bagsy Mathieu.)
The group had originally set their hearts on taking a zebra home!
“Serge the Llama himself has even leapt to the group’s defence – although this is Serge Lama, a French singer who also hails from the region.”
This sentence is practically perfect in every way.
This is just so wonderful.
Did you know that an official 4-H competition is the llama/ alpaca obstacle course? You do now!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38sWu5xtsGk
STOP I need every reader who ever participated in 4-H to email me!
Lady, 4H is how I learned to shoot, sew my own clothes and which side of the plate the fork belongs on. Also, we raised chickens and it taught me about how animals kill their own siblings.
The 4-H at my high school launched my journalism “career.” I was the ONLY reporter on the 4-H beat.
Wait, no, it was FFA. I take it all back.
French teens also burn a LOT of cars.
Llamas have a special place in my heart, because one of my friends once announced “I have taken a luvvah,” except I heard “llama,” so his boyfriend has been known as The Llama for a decade now.
And yes, The Llama was the first person on my FB timeline to post this story.
So they didn't find that kid for 16 HOURS after he was reported missing? What, did he pass out in there?
OMG YOU GUYS PHOTOS. Serge!!!!!!
http://www.buzzfeed.com/tomphillips/these-drunken…
My parents have four llamas in their yard. They don’t do anything, they just hang out and eat the grass, but sometimes people will pull off the highway and get out of their cars to take pictures of them and the llamas spit on them, which is hilarious to watch from my parents’ dining room.