Conn. chimp that mauled woman had Xanax in system

Breitbart ^ | 5/13/09 | staff

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STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) - A Connecticut prosecutor says test results show a chimpanzee that mauled a woman had the anti-anxiety drug Xanax in its system.

Stamford State's Attorney David Cohen said Wednesday that it's unclear if the drug played a role in the attack.

The 200-pound chimp, named Travis, attacked Stamford resident Charla Nash on Feb. 16. Nash lost her hands, nose, lips and eyelids in the attack. Doctors at Ohio's Cleveland Clinic say she is blind and faces two years of surgical procedures.

[pissant]

Goes to show that happy pills work as well on chimps as they do for humans.

[al baby]

He was withdrawing from xanax it has a very short half life

[pissant]

Wonder whatever happened to the Orangutan that Clint used in a couple of his movies.

[beaversmom]

Well after that attack in CA a few years back I wouldn’t trust any chimp—Xanaxed up or not.

[ScreamingFist]

Nash lost her hands, nose, lips and eyelids in the attack.

Good Lord.....

[Chet 99]

[patriot08]

That poor woman. Horrible horrible.
When will people learn not to try to make pets of these things?

[beaversmom]

Manis (actor)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manis_(actor)

[a fool in paradise]

Yes. She SAID that she’d given her boy-toy xanax (I think in a drink) to try to calm him down earlier in the day.

[Diogenesis]

Travis, in better times (2003)

Travis trying to enter the police car after mauling women.

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Travis could "dress" himself and log on to a computer to look at pics (DU and monkey porn?).

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These creatures can get jealous and emotional
and lack the frontal lobe override we expect in most humans.
The chimps non-human tendon insertions yield slightly slower angular rotation rates
at the benefit of a large fulcrum/mechanical advantage
ie. they can tear your head off at their whim.

"Chimp Has Attacked Before, Woman Claims"

[Cyman]

My understanding was that he had been give the medication for a long time and was being weaned off it. I guess he just couldn’t get the monkey off his back.

My apologies, I just couldn’t let that opportunity pass.

[pissant]

You left off the last bracket.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manis_(actor)

Thanks. I assume he’s still kicking.

[a fool in paradise]

Michael Savage had a story about a former drunk his family knew who also raised a chimp. And one day it went bonkers and attacked the owner and he struggled with it eventually throwing it out of the apartment window to its death.

[a fool in paradise]

I think Cheetah’s still around too. At least into the 1990s.

[pissant]

Probably voted for Obama too.

[pissant]

he would be 70+ years old, at least.

[cripplecreek]

I believe orangs tend to the opposite end of the rampage scale as chimps with gorillas somewhere in the middle. All can be dangerous but chimps are off the scale even in the wild.

[pissant]

They would make for tasty lion food.

[a fool in paradise]

Turns out, there were quite a number of Cheetas...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheeta

Cheeta, a male chimpanzee born about 1960, formerly owned by Tony Gentry and now residing at the C.H.E.E.T.A. Primate Sanctuary (Creative Habitats and Enrichment for Endangered and Threatened Apes) in Palm Springs, California. Claimed by Gentry to have been born in 1932 or later in the 1930s and to have portrayed Cheeta in most of the Johnny Weismuller and Lex Barker Tarzan films, and for that reason long celebrated as the longest-lived chimpanzee. Both claims were debunked by journalist R. D. Rosen in 2008 in an article that settled the animal’s true age and established that he had not appeared in any movies, let alone in the role of Cheeta.