55-year-old Charla Nash is in critical condition after her friend's pet chimpanzee Travis, who used to star in TV commercials before he became old and ornery, went quite literally apeshit on her. Police say the chimp's owner, 70-year-old Sandra Herold, called Nash to help her after Travis used a key to let himself out of Herold's Stamford, Connecticut house. Clearly not enthused with the idea of being recaptured, Travis savagely attacked Nash, biting her face and hands all to shit. Herold attempted to stop Travis by stabbing him and whacking him with a shovel, but all this did was piss him off more. When the cops at last arrived, Travis turned his wrath upon them, attacking two officers and attempting to enter a police cruiser to make his getaway. This was when the cops opened fire on Travis, ending his melee in a hail of bullets. It has since come out that Travis was suffering from lyme disease. Sure...make excuses for the chimp. Why can't we just face the fact that chimps are vile little creatures who should be left out in the jungle where they belong? They're not pets. They're not cute or funny in any way, especially when they're trained to act like little humans. Anyone who voluntarily lives with one of those fuckers is just stupid and crazy.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Chimpanzees Are Not Good Pets
55-year-old Charla Nash is in critical condition after her friend's pet chimpanzee Travis, who used to star in TV commercials before he became old and ornery, went quite literally apeshit on her. Police say the chimp's owner, 70-year-old Sandra Herold, called Nash to help her after Travis used a key to let himself out of Herold's Stamford, Connecticut house. Clearly not enthused with the idea of being recaptured, Travis savagely attacked Nash, biting her face and hands all to shit. Herold attempted to stop Travis by stabbing him and whacking him with a shovel, but all this did was piss him off more. When the cops at last arrived, Travis turned his wrath upon them, attacking two officers and attempting to enter a police cruiser to make his getaway. This was when the cops opened fire on Travis, ending his melee in a hail of bullets. It has since come out that Travis was suffering from lyme disease. Sure...make excuses for the chimp. Why can't we just face the fact that chimps are vile little creatures who should be left out in the jungle where they belong? They're not pets. They're not cute or funny in any way, especially when they're trained to act like little humans. Anyone who voluntarily lives with one of those fuckers is just stupid and crazy.
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9 comments:
Thery'e one chromosome away from being human, so it makes total sense to lock them in cages. Stupid people get what they deserve.
Incredibly strong, wild and unreasoning, able to launch turds accurately for great distances and a bite like a super-pitbull?. bad idea.
Yes, let's keep wild and undomesticated animals as pets. What a fabulous idea!!!!!!
lets see, 3 times as strong as a human, teeth to bite of fingers and hands, intelligent, murderous rapists... and some people keep them as 'pets'?
Humans are stupid.
I have never gotten the idea of why people like chimpanzees or think one would make a good pet. It totally baffles me.
if that lady lives apparently her face is GONE....and i just read that the owner had given the chimp xanax in tea...the xanax wasn't prescribed for the chimp....
that chimp owner is going to be facing a lawsuit and they are considering criminal charges...
"Anyone who voluntarily lives with "one of those fuckers is just stupid and crazy."
yeah... totally, and then the sad thing is that when they get a disease and go crazy (don't we humans get Alzheimer's?) they shoot them. can someone shoot my mother then? and dd, locking them in cages? is that really where they belong? can someone put my mother in a cage too, please?
Secon agreement with lia today!! I need a cage.
Why can't Paris Hilton's kinkajou unleash its powerful 2 pound frame on her?.
No wild animal should live with humans like that. People turn on the animal when it attacks..They can't figure out what went wrong with it.. "It's a wild animal"..sheesh.
Eliza
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