did we ever talk about the chimp that shredded the person?

[vash]

dang, i heard the 911 call yesterday. chilling.

apparently the lady is in critical condition. her eyes were taken out, and her jaw was ripped off. brutal.

[exc911ence]

I'd never say that she deserved it for keeping a "wild" animal like that but really, do you really think keeping a Chimpanzee in your house is a good idea?

[vash]

the painful part is that the chimp owner is fine, maybe not mentally. but it is her friend the got mauled. friend waved a stuffed animal to the chimp and flipped a switch.

other facts.
owner slept in the same bed as chimp.
showered with the animal.
animal surfed the internet, ate human food, and drank wine.

crazy story.

[Tishabet]

Holy mackerel... I was vaguely aware of the story (mostly from the hullabaloo around the cartoon) but just looked it up. Here is the CNN video (including much of the 911 call)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbANAb-r6BU&NR=1
chilling is right!

[rammstein]

Its pretty sad that it got mired in a bunch of political nonsense, because that lady really had her life ruined- her face was ripped off!

[stomachmonkey]

Chimps can be nasty.

There was the guy a year or so ago at a zoo.

Chimp got out of cage, tore his ears off, fingers, a foot and his junk.

[vash]

at one point the 911 dispatcher said, "stay in your car maam" she responds with a "it dont matter, he can tear the door off"...

chimps at pets? bad idea. this is...was the OLD NAVY chimp.

[masraum]

sad one article mentioned a face transplant. lady that owned to chimp was 70. would you really want to survive if you had been mauleds like that.

[Rick Lee]

And now there's talk of passing more laws to prevent this from happening again. Yeah, that'll work.

[Jeff Higgins]

Way (waaaaay...) back when, when I was in high school, one of my teacher's wives was a vet. She was called in once to help clam down and capture a little rhesus (SP?) monkey that had gone ape-shyte on its owner. The little bastard damn near killed a middle aged woman, from what I remember. What do those things weigh, maybe 20 pounds on a good day? Chimps can go over 200; this particular one looks every bit that large. Yikes.

So what in the hell makes people think keeping "wild" animals as pets is a good idea? Seems mankind figured out eons ago which ones we can get along with. Stories abound about various animals, even as "gentle" as deer, killing their owners. You just never know with a wild animal - how they see their world, how they see you, when they might get a wild hair...

[Aurel]

It is not the owner of the chimp that got mauled, but her friend.

[willtel]

Originally Posted by Rick Lee

And now there's talk of passing more laws to prevent this from happening again. Yeah, that'll work.

If we need anything in this country it is more laws to protect us...

It is grotesque to discuss but the injuries this lady sustained seem to be consistent with the fighting styles of large primates. They will apparently rip off appendages (this woman had one arm torn off at the elbow) and they will disarm their opponents by forcing the mouth open and dislocating or tearing off the lower jaw. (like the T-rex scene in King Kong)

If you happen to be unlucky enough to be male they will also tear off your reproductive organs to ensure that if you survive the fight you will not mate in the future. I don't think that lady was conscious when the police arrived but something tells me if she was she would have asked for a bullet for herself.

[onewhippedpuppy]

It's never a good idea to keep a pet that could easily kill you. Just sayin........

People are incredibly stupid.

[bivenator]

So the chimp surfed the Internets. screen name?

[onewhippedpuppy]

Originally Posted by bivenator

So the chimp surfed the Internets. screen name?

There are so many great replies to that question.....

[CJFusco]

Yup, it was a weird news day in CT: first the suicidal, gun-weilding crazy shuts down I84 for hours, then a chimp mauls her owners...

On a related note, one of my students turned in a "satire" project today; they decided to do a fake newspaper, a la "The Onion." The lead story? "Local Chimp Goes Cuckoo for Coco Puffs." It was difficult to suppress that laughter, let me tell you.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy

It's never a good idea to keep a pet that could easily kill you. Just sayin........

People are incredibly stupid.

Especially one your size who is 5x's stronger than you.

[Heel n Toe]

Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins

Chimps can go over 200; this particular one looks every bit that large. Yikes.

So what in the hell makes people think keeping "wild" animals as pets is a good idea? Seems mankind figured out eons ago which ones we can get along with. Stories abound about various animals, even as "gentle" as deer, killing their owners. You just never know with a wild animal - how they see their world, how they see you, when they might get a wild hair...

Yep, this one was 200.

This woman was like a lot of "animal lovers"... seriously skewed sense of balance and view of reality. You know how some pet owners are offended if you ask them to change something about their pet's behavior?

Like "please see if you can get your dog to stop barking all night," etc. ...and they'll get pissed at you for even suggesting their critter isn't perfect.

I'm sure this lady was just like that... and had some myopic view of this chimp as "part of the family" or some such BS. See above for the chimp sleeping in the same bed, etc.

Last week, I saw a segment on TV with a woman who had been bitten by this chimp before. She had seen the woman in a parking lot or something and had talked to her about the chimp. As the conversation was ending, she asked the owner if she could say "hello" to him... which, to her, meant reaching in through the part way opened driver's window to touch him.

The chimp grabbed her arm and tried to yank her into the car and bit her hand.

She went to the emergency room to get it checked out. I forget the details from there, but the idiot chimp-owner wouldn't return her calls when she asked her to pay for the bill... which, I hate to say, is typical of this type of person.

The woman who got bit is having serious second-guess guilt issues for not reporting it... knowing that could've prevented this recent incident.

There's a relatively new ordinance in our city or county... I can't remember which. It states (something like) if you hit someone's pet with your vehicle, you are responsible for stopping and trying to find the owner to let them know.

I don't know if I'd do that, just because of some wacko animal-loving idiots like the chimp owner.

Although I would love to let the owner know so the pet could get help ASAP, I foresee an awful lot of situations with pet owners yelling and screaming at drivers claiming it was their fault and not the animal's fault; "you were probably speeding and couldn't stop in time, etc." We have a leash law in the city.

Also, I can see the owner of the injured pet thinking/insisting the driver of the vehicle should put the frightened, bleeding animal in his car to take it to the vet.

And that just ain't right. That's the responsibility of the owner.

All things considered, I think I might rather just pay the fine.

[dd74]

I once was on a tour of a monkey and ape sanctuary in Valencia, near L.A. The guide said a spider monkey's arm strength has been measured as the equivalent needed to bench press 2-300 pounds.

Now consider the chimpanzee, which is an ape that can weigh over 200 pounds, and has a very broad upper body and muscular arms...

Orangutans, who are said to be stronger than gorillas, have been known to pull trees out of the ground, roots and all.

[DARISC]

The most dangerous animals in a circus are the chimpanzees and the elephants.