help to save bahooka's mascot, rufus~~~ - General Tiki

V VampiressRN Grand Member (1 year) Sun City Lincoln Hills (NorCal) Joined: Nov 23, 2006 Posts: 6166	V VampiressRN Posted posted on Mon, Feb 3, 2014 6:08 PM Hope he can go to another Tiki Bar...that would be a great place for him so he can be admired by those that know and love him. Here is more info that was posted on FB (it was a link to this an article about Rufus). Bahooka Love Story SOSOCAL He looks after 105 aquariums, but a fish called Rufus has stolen his heart July 16, 2000\|ED LEIBOWITZ When the crew of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" showed up to shoot a tiki bar scene at Bahooka Ribs and Grog in Rosemead, Bernardo Reyna saved the restaurant's prized pacu from a beta carotene overdose. The crew wanted to send Rufus, a 34-pound South American predatory fish that loves carrots, into gyrations of ecstasy by feeding him stick after stick of the veggie. "If we feed him that much, he's going to explode," warned Reyna, caretaker of Bahooka's Polynesian paradise of 105 built-in aquariums. To fend off calamity, he fastened a string around a carrot, dropped it into the tank and tugged at it off-screen as Rufus pursued. With no undue stomach upset, Rufus thrashed about magnificently as Johnny Depp's character made his frantic call to score drugs on an aquarium-adjacent pay phone.

Hope he can go to another Tiki Bar...that would be a great place for him so he can be admired by those that know and love him.

Here is more info that was posted on FB (it was a link to this an article about Rufus).

Bahooka Love Story SOSOCAL
He looks after 105 aquariums, but a fish called Rufus has stolen his heart
July 16, 2000|ED LEIBOWITZ

When the crew of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" showed up to shoot a tiki bar scene at Bahooka Ribs and Grog in Rosemead, Bernardo Reyna saved the restaurant's prized pacu from a beta carotene overdose. The crew wanted to send Rufus, a 34-pound South American predatory fish that loves carrots, into gyrations of ecstasy by feeding him stick after stick of the veggie. "If we feed him that much, he's going to explode," warned Reyna, caretaker of Bahooka's Polynesian paradise of 105 built-in aquariums. To fend off calamity, he fastened a string around a carrot, dropped it into the tank and tugged at it off-screen as Rufus pursued. With no undue stomach upset, Rufus thrashed about magnificently as Johnny Depp's character made his frantic call to score drugs on an aquarium-adjacent pay phone.

Post #706656 by VampiressRN on Mon, Feb 3, 2014 6:08 PM