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This Guy Took A Llama To A Wedding To Win A Five-Year-Long Joke

Drama llama.

If you grew up with a sibling, you’ll know that there is one universal truth in this world: there is nothing more fun than driving them up the wall. The more creative you are about annoying them, the better. We’ve all been put to shame today though, because this dude brought a llama to his sister’s wedding just to annoy her.

Five years ago, Mendl Weinstock was driving from Ohio to Indiana with his older sister Riva and her friends.

“She was talking about her wedding, planning it, making plans almost as if it was going to happen the next day even though she wasn’t dating anybody at the time,” he said.

“I said, ‘If you make me come to this wedding, I’m going to bring a llama with me’. It was just the first thing that popped into my head.”

By the time Riva got engaged, she had probably forgotten about the whole llama conversation, but Mendl certainly had not.

Meet Shocky, a fully grown adult llama. I have no idea how you’d go about finding the measurements of a llama, but someone did and Shocky got his own custom tuxedo made for the special day, complete with yarmulke.

Credit: Mendl Weinstock

Imagine, for just a moment, the day that you get to parade into your sister’s wedding with a llama in a tux, after five years of being a pest about it. Glorious. 

Anyway, Riva’s face tells you about everything you need to know, but she actually was a good sport about the whole thing. 

Credit: Mendl Weinstock

“She might have been a little mad at first, but she was in on the joke and she definitely realised it was funny and she hasn’t held a grudge or anything,” Mendl said. “But she did say she’d get me back at some point in the future.”

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