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Knyte
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A pet chimpanzee has been shot dead by a police officer after mauling a woman visiting its owner. The 200lb ape, who had appeared on TV commercials, attacked the woman as she got out of her car.
The woman suffered “serious blood loss” from facial injuries and was in a “very serious” condition in hospital.
The animal had been trained to ride in the family’s vehicles, had appeared on commercials for Coca-Cola and Old Navy and had also appeared in a television pilot.
“He’s been raised almost like a child by this family. He rides in a car every day, he opens doors… We have no indication of what provoked this behaviour at all,” Stamford Police captain Richard Conklin said.
Owner Sandra Herold had wrestled with Travis in an effort to stop the attack on her friend, then ran inside to make an emergency call.
“She retrieved a large butcher knife and stabbed her longtime pet numerous times in an effort to save her friend, who was really being brutally attacked,” Conklin said. [Editor’s note: HOLY SHIT!]
Paramedics then arrived to treat the woman, with police officers protecting them, but the chimp then started attacking them, AP reported. One officer was cornered in his vehicle and shot Travis in self-defence. [via BBC - thanks to Eric for the tip] |
Jesus, that’s horrible. But look, people, you can’t raise a chimp like a child actor and then expect him not to act like a child actor. I mean, look at Danny Masterson.
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Douche McCallister
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I want to know what the hell kind of shitty butcher knife this person used. Multiple stabs should have done something.
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nihilisticglee
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| I want to know what the hell kind of shitty butcher knife this person used. Multiple stabs should have done something. |
it was a 200lb chimp, and odds are that weight is coming from muscle. Muscle can be hard as fuck to cut through, especially from an animal with a lot of it. It probably did something, but it wouldn't stop it.
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Douche McCallister
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| nihilisticglee wrote: |
| Douche McCallister wrote: |
| I want to know what the hell kind of shitty butcher knife this person used. Multiple stabs should have done something. |
it was a 200lb chimp, and odds are that weight is coming from muscle. Muscle can be hard as fuck to cut through, especially from an animal with a lot of it. It probably did something, but it wouldn't stop it. |
Obviously, but if you cut muscle it tends to fuck up the use of the limb to some extent.
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SoldierHawk
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Poor person, poor chimp. 
Animals, especially wild ones, were just not meant to be raised like humans. They just aren't.
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nihilisticglee
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| nihilisticglee wrote: |
| Douche McCallister wrote: |
| I want to know what the hell kind of shitty butcher knife this person used. Multiple stabs should have done something. |
it was a 200lb chimp, and odds are that weight is coming from muscle. Muscle can be hard as fuck to cut through, especially from an animal with a lot of it. It probably did something, but it wouldn't stop it. |
Obviously, but if you cut muscle it tends to fuck up the use of the limb to some extent. |
I assume she was stabbing it in the back, a lot large then the arms and wouldn't be moving around as much
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