Of course, attorney Gloria Allred has her hand out hoping for a big cash settlement for the poor babies pain and suffering. There no word on whether the aggrieved black men will be required to pay Richards for their use of a racist term that started the fight.Michael Richards will apologize in person to the four black men he targeted in a tirade of racial slurs during a recent comedy club performance.
A retired judge will mediate the meeting and determine whether he should take any other action to resolve the matter, Richards' spokesman and an attorney for the men said Friday.
A cash settlement could be part of the resolution, said Howard J. Rubenstein, who represents Richards.
"My client Michael hopes to put it behind him," Rubenstein said.
Meanwhile, Shamu, who also suffered a breakdown while performing causing her to bite a trainer's foot and drag him to the bottom of the pool...twice, is back at work:
SAN DIEGO – Some days, killer whales just wake up on the wrong side of the pool.Shamu will not be required to make a cash settlement, largely because she didn't call the trainer the n-word.
A 2 1/2-ton orca that dragged a trainer underwater during a show at SeaWorld may have been put out by a spat with another whale, grumpy because of the weather or just irritable from a stomach ache, according to marine mammal experts.
"Some mornings they just wake up not as willing to do the show as others," said Ken Balcomb, director of the Center for Whale Research in Friday Harbor, Wash. "If the trainer doesn't recognize it's not a good day, this will happen."
The whale, Kasatka, was back in the water Thursday for a lunchtime performance that went off without a hitch. But the show was limited to tricks that did not involve trainers getting in the water.
Said Kramer, upon hearing that the whale was back at work: "Damn, I should have just bit them".
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