Cdn Press: Iguana Breaks Leg in Ottawa Collision - 26 June

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Posted by Wes von Papine�u on July 25, 2001 at 19:31:28:

OTTAWA SUN (Ontario) 26 June 01 Crash Rocks Reptiles - Iguana Breaks Leg in Ottawa Collision (Andrew Seymour)
An injured iguana was the only casualty of a crash that totalled a car full of exotic creatures yesterday.
Olivia the iguana suffered a broken leg after zookeeper Jen McDonald�s Volkswagen Jetta was rammed from behind while she was stopped on St. Laurent Blvd. at about 1:50 p.m.
�The containers were just completely shattered,� said McDonald, who works at Little Ray�s Reptile Adventure and had just finished a demonstration at an elementary school.
McDonald had Olivia and 11-foot-long, 50-lb. male Burmese python Eros �in the trunk. of her car when she was hit from behind by two men in another car.
The force of the collision crushed the car�s trunk, sending the nearly four foot-long iguana scrambling onto the busy road. A frightened Eros then curled his massive, muscular body around a metal bar in the mangled car.
With a car full of bizarre creatures freed from their now-lidless containers � including a tarantula, a tree frog, a snapping turtle, a tortoise and a millipede � emergency crews were caught off guard by the strange collection of potential patients.
�The firefighters and paramedics were trying to take Eros out but he wouldn�t let go,� said McDonald.
An employee from the nearby OC Transpo garage provided new containers for Eros and Olivia, who were taken along with the other animals to a nearby pet store. Olivia was taken to an animal hospital, where a splint was attached to her broken leg and vitamins prescribed to speed her recovery.

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: OTTAWA SUN (Ontario) 26 June 01 Crash Rocks Reptiles - Iguana Breaks Leg in Ottawa Collision (Andrew Seymour) : An injured iguana was the only casualty of a crash that totalled a car full of exotic creatures yesterday. : Olivia the iguana suffered a broken leg after zookeeper Jen McDonald�s Volkswagen Jetta was rammed from behind while she was stopped on St. Laurent Blvd. at about 1:50 p.m. : �The containers were just completely shattered,� said McDonald, who works at Little Ray�s Reptile Adventure and had just finished a demonstration at an elementary school. : McDonald had Olivia and 11-foot-long, 50-lb. male Burmese python Eros �in the trunk. of her car when she was hit from behind by two men in another car. : The force of the collision crushed the car�s trunk, sending the nearly four foot-long iguana scrambling onto the busy road. A frightened Eros then curled his massive, muscular body around a metal bar in the mangled car. : With a car full of bizarre creatures freed from their now-lidless containers � including a tarantula, a tree frog, a snapping turtle, a tortoise and a millipede � emergency crews were caught off guard by the strange collection of potential patients. : �The firefighters and paramedics were trying to take Eros out but he wouldn�t let go,� said McDonald. : An employee from the nearby OC Transpo garage provided new containers for Eros and Olivia, who were taken along with the other animals to a nearby pet store. Olivia was taken to an animal hospital, where a splint was attached to her broken leg and vitamins prescribed to speed her recovery.

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