Killer chimp

[Parts]

Look at this weird shit from the town I grew up in I heard in on local news but the AP picked it up

HARTFORD, Conn. – A 200-pound domesticated chimpanzee who once starred in TV commercials for Old Navy and Coca-Cola was shot dead by police after a violent rampage that left a friend of its owner badly mauled.

Sandra Herold, who owned the 15-year-old chimp named Travis, wrestled with the animal after it inexplicably attacked her friend Charla Nash, 55.

Nash had gone to Herold's home in Stamford

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090217/ap_on_re_us/chimpanzee_attack

[Callaway]

He was toilet trained, bathed and dressed himself, and brushed his teeth.

It sounds like he was raised more like a child than as a pet, so everyone forgot that he was still a wild animal.

[SovaNu]

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

he might have seen something that wasn't there. or the xanax had an opposite effect. anyway you're right he was a wild animal, it's stupid to forget that.

[Gluey]

That's sad. That was somebodies baby..............well to be blunt animals shouldn't be taken out of the wild for homo sapian amusement.

[P7PSP]

This is why chimps should not be granted rights Soph!

["couldbecousin"]

There's a TV show here, Fatal Attractions,  about people who have met horrible fates by treating dangerous animals as pets. 

[P7PSP]

Letting them vote and debate in Parliament would fuck things up, even by English standards. 

["couldbecousin"]

Letting them vote and debate in Parliament would fuck things up, even by English standards. 

But I do think they are entitled to have ice lollies as you mentioned elsewhere.   

[Adam]

This is why chimps should not be granted rights Soph!

Yeah because humans never do this kinda shit.......................

He probably should never have been "owned" and used as an actor in the first place

[P7PSP]

Letting them vote and debate in Parliament would fuck things up, even by English standards. 

But I do think they are entitled to have ice lollies as you mentioned elsewhere.   

['andersom']

This is why chimps should not be granted rights Soph!

Yeah because humans never do this kinda shit.......................

He probably should never have been "owned" and used as an actor in the first place

He should not have been forced to be "human", that violated his chimp rights.

[Adam]

Yeah that is true

I am not saying chimps should be forced to be human either btw, when I say they should have more rights. I just call them human rights as that is obviously what they are called for people. For chimps they would not be human rights, I just think they should have similar

[P7PSP]

Yeah that is true

I am not saying chimps should be forced to be human either btw, when I say they should have more rights. I just call them human rights as that is obviously what they are called for people. For chimps they would not be human rights, I just think they should have similar

Troglodyte rights.

[Icequeen]

Holy fuck, did anyone else pull up the interview Oprah did with Charla Nash after this happened? Badly mauled is an understatement.

*not for the squeamish*

Nash lost both her hands in the attack, as well as her nose, an eyelid, and lips. Doctors removed her eyes due to an infection, and only recently did she learn she'll no longer be able to see.

 

[Osensitive1]

He probably should never have been "owned" and used as an actor in the first place

Animals shouldn't be owned or used sound like something Ingrid Newkirk would say. She'd gladly take your pets from you and kill them with her own hands.