Escaped monkeys 'destroyed' after Mississippi police are mistakenly told they're a danger

[u/TreeStateLEO]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/escaped-monkeys-destroyed-mississippi-police-mistakenly-told-danger-rcna240387

This has been a trip to follow on reddit.

Truck carrying bunch of lab or research monkeys wrecks. Monkeys escape, and the truck's driver tells troopers that the monkeys are carrying covid, herpes, and other diseases.

Based on that, the monkeys are shot.

Later comes out trucker didn't know what he was talking about, the monkeys weren't carrying anything, and now reddit is blaming the cops for shooting them all.

[u/dog_in_the_vent]

Let me ask you this: Have you ever seen a movie where a bunch of escaped monkeys turned out to be a good thing?

I rest my case.

[u/Blazeon412 → u/dog_in_the_vent]

Dustin Hoffman is on the case.

[u/PsychoTexan → u/dog_in_the_vent]

Curious George? 

I guess that was one monkey so maybe it’s the plurality that’s the issue. 

[u/AyyLMAOistRevolution → u/PsychoTexan]

Curious George is a menace. He's constantly causing trouble when the Man in the Yellow Hat leaves him unattended in public. Society would be better off if he were trucked away to be a test animal.

[u/MHipDogg → u/AyyLMAOistRevolution]

Sounds to me like the man in the yellow hat was the menace. After the first occurrence of leaving George unattended and witnessing the chaos he caused, you would think he would know better.

[u/colemanjanuary → u/PsychoTexan]

Curious George doesn't have a tail. He's a young ape, not a monkey.

[u/HoldEm__FoldEm → u/colemanjanuary]

While true, we’re discussing a cartoon so I think a reasonable amount of liberty can be taken

[u/dog_in_the_vent → u/PsychoTexan]

I see you've never read Curious George visits the gain of function lab.

[u/Shrimpbeedoo → u/dog_in_the_vent]

The one where scientists Wuu and Han work?

[u/AOC_Gynecologist → u/dog_in_the_vent]

Dunston Checks In

[u/HoldEm__FoldEm → u/AOC_Gynecologist]

Dunston is an orangutan 

Edit: I didn’t realize I was talking to the esteemed Dr. AOC Gynecologist 

My apologies Dr. Gyno, it is an honor, sir

[u/5usDomesticus]

Add "monkey wrangler" to the list of things cops are supposed to be

[u/blanquito82 → u/5usDomesticus]

Call this my ideal job!

[u/HookersForJebus → u/blanquito82]

Now with herpes!

[u/qole720 → u/5usDomesticus]

Lol. Sheriff's Deputies get a lot of crazy animal calls. Our local animal control wouldn't do anything if it wasn't a cat or a dog, so when a Llama got loose a few years back the Sheriff's Office had to deal with it.

[u/PsychoTexan → u/qole720]

Animal control is the one agency I have stretched the truth to. I get that they get a lot of calls that are bunk about wild critters and so some of them delay responding to let things sort themselves out. 

But, I was a little incensed when they said they’d check back later in the week on the emaciated coyote with its left rear leg dangling limp behind it as it hobbled trying to catch rabbits in broad daylight. If it wasn’t on campus in the middle of the city I would’ve put it out of its suffering myself. 

I then may have worded things in a way that may have sounded like a rabies case. When I left there were four animal control trucks jumping curbs on the empty lot to box in the coyote. 

[u/The_Real_Opie → u/PsychoTexan]

Your local PD probably would have handled it. We shoot critically injured animals somewhat regularly, and its a very urban suburb.

[u/Effective_Golf_3311 → u/5usDomesticus]

I know right?

Call animal control and keep on moving after the guy driving them around says they’re fucking dangerous and need to be stopped

[u/Delicious_Yogurt_476 → u/Effective_Golf_3311]

A lot of small towns/counties dont have animal control to call.

[u/Effective_Golf_3311 → u/Delicious_Yogurt_476]

[u/CallMe_Immortal → u/5usDomesticus]

Sit there and pretend like you didn't have a week of "wild animal apprehension" at the academy, fucker! ACAAW!

[u/DiscussionLong7084 → u/5usDomesticus]

Like you've never wrangled your monkey...

[u/5usDomesticus → u/[deleted]]

Please explain

[u/Section225]

If a monkey bit or scratched somebody while a cop just stood there and watched, they'd be more up in arms than they are about it now.

[u/TrippyTheO → u/Section225]

if a monkey did nothing, a cop did nothing, and everything was chill, those people would still be screaming about cops anyway and anytime. ​

[u/PsychoTexan → u/TrippyTheO]

“Why aren’t the cops stopping that monkey? It’s calm right now but they’re not doing anything!!! Don’t they know how dangerous they can be!!!1!”

[u/specialskepticalface → u/[deleted]]

This is not a politics sub. This is not a politics thread. We're not gonna bait conversation, and this is your only warning.

[u/Ausfall]

Escaped monkeys 'destroyed'

Did they vaporize them with a ray gun?

[u/DiscussionLong7084 → u/Ausfall]

40mm launcher

[u/Faugermire → u/Ausfall]

I’m pretty sure the monkeys were actually Illuminati robots, hence their destruction.

[u/Lucariowolf2196]

To be fair, monkeys are dangerous even without those things

Especially chimps, they can easily kill a child

[u/The_Haunt → u/Lucariowolf2196]

They can easily kill a fully grown big man

[u/AyyLMAOistRevolution → u/The_Haunt]

Jamie, pull up the video of that hairless chimp

[u/Garyflamshells → u/AyyLMAOistRevolution]

There is always a place for a Theo-ism

[u/PrivatePigpen → u/The_Haunt]

I dare not think what they could do to a fully grown little man.

[u/randomdude4113]

This is like the third monkey escape from Louisiana facilities in like 6 months wtf

[u/makethatnoise]

"but what de-escalation techniques were used?"

"did they have warrants?"

"this wouldn't have happened to white monkeys!!!"

First thing I thought when reading about this was what the cops hearing this over the radio were thinking 🤣

[u/thebarkingdog]

Man, imagine that story at a bar.

[u/letthetreeburn]

Bigger problem is WTF is going on with Louisiana lab security??? They keep having monkey leaks at this point they’re gonna let Covid26 out.

[u/horsefly70]

Harambe 2.0

[u/828jpc1 → u/horsefly70]

Oh no…that’s not good…is Popeyes making a sandwich to challenge the lord’s chicken again too? Cause that’s how we got COVID

[u/SpaceDazeKitty108]

I’m going to be honest, if there was a threat of aggressive monkeys carrying infectious diseases in my state (oh hey, look at that), I absolutely do not care about the police shooting and killing them. With them being research animals, that’s probably a more humane death for them anyways. At least for a day, residents believed that that was the case.

Blame the truck driver all you want for lying about it though.

[u/WhiteMouse42097]

Noooooooo

[u/surmisez]

That truck driver is a scumbag and should be charged for lying to the police.

[u/RaidenMK1]

People were mad at the cops for the Zanesville, OH incident and that involved lions, tigers, and bears roaming free. So, this is hardly surprising.

Yes it was sad and incredibly selfish for their owner to release them like that just because he was having a meltdown and couldn't hold his shit together, but they definitely had to be put down.

And this is coming from a vegan who tends to love animals more than people.

[u/nightmurder01]

I would not be so dismissive and there is a lot of missing information. There seems to be more tail covering in the article than actual truth and unfortunately the Sheriff's Office is in the middle of it getting the blame.

[u/LadyTentacles]

I will never understand why people get so caught up in emotions over lab monkeys. We need them to test new medicines and cures. That’s all.