Posted on 04/24/2006 9:58:25 AM PDT by null and void
Bruno, the alpha male, is said to be large, powerful and wary of visitors Police in Sierra Leone are on the hunt for a group of chimpanzees, who escaped from their wildlife sanctuary after a fatal attack on construction workers.
Armed reinforcements are combing the area after a Sierra Leonean died and two Americans were seriously injured.
Security personnel said four men were attacked on Sunday after entering the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary.
Angry chimps killed and mutilated the driver. The two Americans are in a hospital in the capital, Freetown.
A worker at Tacugama told the BBC that some 24 chimpanzees had escaped, and six had already returned.
Armed police arrived after the attack and fired shots which caused panic among local people.
Tourism Minister Okere Adams visited the scene and said police are combing the area to bring the chimps back to the sanctuary.
"We are combing the area and beyond to bring the chimpanzees back but would not harm them," a police officer told AFP news agency.
The sanctuary was set up a decade ago to give shelter to orphaned and abandoned chimpanzees.
Across West Africa, chimpanzees are under threat from hunting, logging and human encroachment.
No good deed goes unpunished...
Definitely shoot Bruno.
Watch out! That chimp's got a taste for human blood!
This seems to happen to homeless advocates all the time. ;)
The leader of the apes, a chimp named Caeser, was quoted by the local press as saying
"Where there is fire, there is smoke. And in that smoke, from this day forward, my people will crouch and conspire and plot and plan for the inevitable day of Man's downfall - the day when he finally and self-destructively turns his weapons against his own kind. The day of the writing in the sky, when your cities lie buried under radioactive rubble! When the sea is a dead sea, and the land is a wasteland out of which I will lead my people from their captivity! And we will build our own cities in which there will be no place for humans except to serve our ends! And we shall found our own armies, our own religion, our own dynasty! And that day is upon you NOW"
They have had a problem with guerrilla warfare for years.
IT'S A MADHOUSE!!!
A MADHOUSE!!!
LOL.
It's coming.
And I'm stocking up on ammo.
Booooooooo!
We want Carrot Top!
:^)
The article neglects to mention if they're Maoists, but it's highly likely they are; the photograph of Bruno testifies to the chimp's striking resemblance to the late Chinese leader, and the personal hygiene and patterns of grooming are identical. Well... almost identical; Bruno clearly takes greater pains to cultivate a civilized appearance than did Mao, and perhaps this is the reason the chimp is somewhat more handsome.
Get your stinkin' paws off me, you damned dirty ape!
The whole hygiene thing--I was thinking they must be French.
The government of Sierra Leon should conscript these Chimps , train them in small arms use and nocturnal attacks only, then turn them loose in Basra.
Death from the Trees is an understatement.
Somehow the old movie RIOT from 1969 comes to mind.
I missed that one.
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