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RETVRN TO MONKE
(hexbear.net)
Sorry to ruin the fun, fellow sickos. The image is AI generated, its sole use is as a youtube thumbnail (duh) for a video entitled "When Cops FOUGHT Dangerous Animals" which is a collection of bodycam footage and 911 calls where police are sent to intervene in animal attacks.
TL;DR: I cannot find confirmation anywhere of a monke killing two cops. This image is used on youtube to promote a video which has three chimp attacks in it and in two of them it's the chimp who is shot to death by the cops. In one, the chimp is sedated with tranqs and coaxed into a cage.
The rest of my post. CW: animal attacks, violence, police killing animals.
I'm not going to watch the whole video because I really don't want to watch police shoot animals and I don't want to watch people getting attacked by animals.
Scrubbing through the timeline I can confirm that the image in the thumbnail is not a still from the video. I think I might have seen a cop get bitten in the crotch by a pitbull but I'm not 100% sure. Either way I imagine that dog is dead now (possibly not though, I did see a video not too long ago where a cop was attacked by the dog, then that cop was shot by another cop and the dog ran off into the night, real slapstick shit.)
I copied the video transcript text and searched for chimp and the video apparently contains 3 chimp attacks.
- Travis, the infamous case where the xanned out chimpanzee who was treated like a human family member, used to drive a car around town got pissed off one day and tore his "owner's" friend's face and hands off. (2002, Stamford, Connecticut.)
- Sueko, a 21 year old, 300lb, "privately owned" chimpanzee, escapes confinement and is spotted running away with a rope around her, dragging a chain. She is sedated and returns to a cage in her owner's van. Before the tranquilizer kicks in she smashes a cop car window and, APPARENTLY, "flips off" an animal control officer. The owner has a long history of issues with the city over keeping this animal. At the time of the event she is ultimately transported to "Monkey Island, a primate refuge" for suitable housing until "the city decides on her future." (Oct. 20 2010, Kansas City, Missouri.)
- Buck, ~18 year old, 200lb, "privately owned" chimpanzee attacks his 68 year old "owner" and her 50 year old daughter. The daughter was bitten on her torso and limbs. The chimpanzee was roaming in an outside fenced area when the police arrive, with the owner and daughter barricaded in the basement. The cop shot and killed the chimp. (2021, Pendleton, Oregon.)
So, sadly, there are no happy stories here. I am going to do more reading and try to find out what ultimately happened with Sueko. I wonder whether she returned to live with her owner Mark Archigo or perhaps she was allowed to live in a sanctuary somewhere.
