40 monkeys escape from Alpha Genesis bio-research lab in South Carolina

ny post ^ | Nov. 7, 2024, | By Patrick Reilly

[BenLurkin]

Cops are warning residents in rural South Carolina to shut their doors and windows after at least 43 monkeys escaped from a bio-research lab.

The rhesus macaques slipped out of an Alpha Genesis facility in Yemassee — which is just off I-95 in the south of the state — on Wednesday night.

“We want to assure the community that there is no health risk associated with these animals,” the Yemassee Police Department said.

Residents are being told not to approach the loose monkeys and instead call 911 and report the sighting.

It’s unclear how the primates managed to break out.

[egfowler3]

Insider job for sure. PETA??

[RckyRaCoCo]

[Lazamataz]

40 monkeys escape from Alpha Genesis bio-research lab in South Carolina

...and so it begins.

[Lazamataz]

Are they absolutely certain? I heard they were all infected with and carriers of the “Rage” virus. We remember how that turned out last time, 28 days later....

I'm waiting 28 weeks later.

[Lazamataz]

Not sure how they will drink. They left behind their rhesus cups.

Well, they will definitely eat....rhesus pieces.

[dfwgator]

Well, they will definitely eat....rhesus pieces.

[Lazamataz]

The best part is that you found a monkey to do the rimshot.

[Jamestown1630]

Monkeys are like many other species - they generally have a dominance hierarchy. Monkeys will copy and ‘follow the leader’. Some labs have animals living in large groups, and if one figures out an escape, the others will follow. There’s no indication of how these animals were kept or how they escaped, or what was going on when they escaped.

(And there is no indication that the animals were used to develop the ‘latest deadly disease’.Non human primates are used for all kinds of research.)

[Lazamataz]

Don’t have sex with any monkeys you come across.

DON'T YOU TELL ME HOW TO LIVE!!!!

[dfwgator]

That’s why it immediately came to mind.

[Jamestown1630]

The animal ‘rights’ nuts have done things like that in the past...

[Larry Lucido]

No justice no piece!

[Surrounded_too]

They will break windows for entry. Another reason to be armed and ready. There

must be video of the perp. There should be hunting parties of military snipers.

Get them now before they get too far and breed and we’ll never know how mamny

there are.

[BluH2o]

They would be wise to stay away from the train station in Yemassee ... Marine DI’s might round them up, throw them on a bus ... next stop Parris Island.

[monkeyshine]

I confess

[vivenne]

Was one of them named Steve McQueen?

[USAF1985]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8Iqskd_Vq8

[Darksheare]

40 monkies released they mean.

[PghBaldy]

our granddaughter, seventeen

Seventeen is a cool name for a girl.

[Skwor]

Wow for even just posting a statement of cautious skepticism you jump right to ad hominem insults. Go back to DU troll.