Chimpanzee Attack Revives Calls for Federal Primate Law

FOXNews.com ^ | Wednesday, February 18, 2009 | By Joshua Rhett Miller

[metmom]

A bill pending in Congress that would ban selling primates as pets must be passed to rectify a patchwork of state and local laws that leave many people at risk of being attacked by exotic animals like chimpanzees, animal experts and lawmakers told FOXNews.com.

Police shot and killed a 200-pound chimpanzee in Connecticut Monday after it attacked a 55-year-old woman, leaving her in critical condition with major, "life-altering" injuries to her face and hands.

[blackbart.223]

"That chimp had man boobs."

The fact you made that observation puts your sanity into question.

[Krankor]

It's what pushed him over the edge.

[eyedigress]

Kramer could help him with The Bro'.

[blackbart.223]

"It's what pushed him over the edge."

You seriously need help. So do I because I'm laughing at this.

[odin2008]

Someone told me that the owner was having sex with the chimp,that would be a whole new meaning to monkey love..

[Mogwai]

Are you Kim Kardashian in real life? ;-)

[truthguy]

I'm certainly no expert on Chimps or on animal behavior. However from TV shows I seen it's apparent that a 200 lb Chimp is much stronger than any 200 lb man. With that type of power this animal is incredibly dangerous. All the animal experts I've seen on TV say that a Chimp is a terrible animal to have as a pet and should only be owned in secure facilities by real experts, zoos and the like. I cannot believe she owned a 200 lb chimp.

She should have been like me and got a 75 lb Labrador Retriever. Very reliable, very safe-with lots of affection.

[George Smiley]

If it requires that all the lower primates in Congress resign immediately, then I’m all for it.

[Birch Barlow]

Didn’t Spain on some other European give human rights to these animals? If that’s the case it sounds like the chimp went crazy in the wrong country, he could have claimed his rights were violated before being shot.

[Arthur McGowan]

No doubt this Congress will declare “personhood” for chimps, and make it illegal for the cops to shoot them.

[blackbart.223]

"She should have been like me and got a 75 lb Labrador Retriever. Very reliable, very safe-with lots of affection."

My Black Lab is close to 120 lbs and can be trusted around small children. Anyone else for that matter.

[Paleo Conservative]

If it requires that all the lower primates in Congress resign immediately, then I’m all for it.

But it would still allow the rodents to stay indefinitely.

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

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(NOTE TAXPAYER'S $$$)

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IIRC we now have about 150 there,,,

All it will take is one small tornado and a few trees down,

(Broken walls/etc.),,,

And the whole mess of them will run loose in that area,,,

POS~RINO Congressman Jim McCrery(no longer in office)helped

Jam this through as well as the PETA types,,,

Bumper stickers showed-up as soon as it opened :

“Louisiana Monkey Hunter.”...

[Ditter]

Years ago on a hunting lease in south Texas one of our family saw a chimp that had escaped from a testing lab, there was probably more than one. I never thought at the time how dangerous they could be.

[deannadurbin]

This story is really getting bizarre, but at least it’s taking the octuplets mom off the radar screen. I was sick of hearing them harp on her for weeks! This story has replaced that one, at least for now.

I mean, come on, right now as I type this Drudge has TWO pictures of Travis on his page! LOL!

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

I never thought at the time how dangerous they could be.
~~~
We all have to learn our lessons in this life to stay alive.

I learned about “monkeys” etc. back in ‘67 when some

jackass had a “Rock Ape”(10-15lbs) as a “pet”,,,

Grabbed MY last pack of dry smokes,,,

I grabbed them back,,,

Lil’Basturd Bit Me!!!(still got the scar),,,

I punched him in the nose(bloody nose)knocked him off me,,,

Came up with my Kabar ,,,jackass and monkey bugged out,,,

Two weeks later “somebody” shot that damn monkey,,,

“Somebody” also showed the jackass a frag,,,

“Don't bring another one here.”...

[Ditter]

When my husband was in college and before I knew him, he bought a pet monkey. He took it home and the nasty little creature climbed his moms bedroom drapes and pooped on them. Monkey had to find a new home and my husband hasn’t had a hankering for a pet monkey since.

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

When my husband was in college and before I knew him, he bought a pet monkey. He took it home and the nasty little creature climbed his moms bedroom drapes and pooped on them. Monkey had to find a new home and my husband hasn’t had a hankering for a pet monkey since.
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!LMAOROF!,,,I can see it now!!!

MY Mama would have put a load of #6 shot in that monkey!

I know that ain't funi but I can't Help it!!!Bwahahahahah!!!

[GladesGuru]

” Bumper stickers showed-up as soon as it opened :

“Louisiana Monkey Hunter.”...”

Thebedeaux & Boudereaux are not known for being PETA freaks, IIRC.

Mr. Monkey might have a close encounter of the “specieism” kind.

The pre-op pictures of the chimp victim face and hands should prove most enlightening.

[metmom]

You can’t make this stuff up.

These people are going to put The Onion and Scrappleface out of business.