Posted on 02/18/2009 12:18:17 PM PST by PilotDave
The 15-minute recording captures the bizarre horror of Monday's attack, which left a 55-year-old woman critically injured and the 200-pound ape dead in a hail of police gunfire.
"Hurry, please! He ripped her face off," the ape's frantic owner, Sandy Herold, 70, is heard telling the dispatcher on the tapes released Tuesday night.
"Listen to me, you have to shoot him."
The terrifying screeches of Travis the chimpanzee are heard as he mercilessly pounces on Herold's pal, Charla Nash.
"He killed her!" Herold told the dispatcher. "He ripped her apart. He tried attacking me. How fast can you get here?"
The dispatcher sounds incredulous as Herold describes how she had to stab the burly ape and only aggravated him.
"He's eating her," Herold screamed. "Please have them go faster."
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This story is a tragedy all around.
Sorry to have to say it, but a response like yours shouldn’t be dignified with a comment.
I’ve heard that chimpanzees are nearly twice as strong as humans.
The wife was a Vet Tech in a past life. It was quite revealing to read her texts which detailed the different effects of the same drugs on different species. You get an appreciation for how hard a Vet has to work as opposed to a human doc, who only has to worry about one species (and a degenerate sub-species known as "lawyers").
Lots of people keep exotic animals. Some pay a price for it, some don’t.
A horse can kick your head off if you are standing in the wrong place.
This particular ape actually appeared - apparently - in TV shows. I don’t know anything about this woman and neither do any of the other commentors here.
All animals are unpredictable - so are people. Pick up any newspaper.
Until this event happened, it appears there was no problem with the critter. It may have been the Lyme Disease or the Xanax or who knows what.
When dealing with animals you always have to expect the unexpected and the more intelligent the animal - and Chimps are highly intelligent - the more unpredictable the behavior.
You can always tell how a rattlesnake or a snail will act. But with chimps, bears or people, you take your chances.
If you want to go on believing that a 70 year old woman who owns and lets a 200 lb. monkey roam free isn’t the very definition of an idiot, there is nothing I can do for you.
Good luck.
Sandy Harold - no doubt another Obama voter.
Naw. Only if you have a heart.
To people like “Subterfuge” its a simple casse of black and white.
See, to people like Subterfuge everything is a simple case of right and wrong. Subterfuge is always right and people who don’t quite see things his way are wrong.
He’s baiting me and trying to get me to respond directly to him. But I never respond directly to somebody who calls me an “idiot” - verbally anyway.
LOL
And for sure, if I had a 200 lb "pet" that walked on its knuckles, I'd be sure to always have a 12 gauge handy.
We have a mini dachshund, Ruby. With her, my biggest fear is stepping in dog poop.
I had no idea that chimps grew so large or so strong, or that they were capable of such aggression. People make some really stupid decisions sometimes.
This is the perfect example of why human beings should not have this kind of animal as a pet. The chip is an animal first and foremost and will resort to his natural instincts when he feels threatened. Don’t know if he felt threatened or if it was the med the owner put in his tea. Either way this is a terrible, tragic story.
We hope and pray the victim will survive and will pray really hard for her.
We cannot help but feel a terrible sadness for this poor creature who was kept where he shouldn’t have been in the first place. He got away once before and they had trouble getting him back. Didn’t that tell them something for God’s sakes? Creatures like that need to be free and in their own environment...not in a neighborhood where he can do damage to others and in this case tear someone up. He’s only doing what he knows. Now he is dead and has met the same ending most animals do who are kept where they should not be. I have to admit I shed a tear for the chimp because he is ignorant (in a nice way) and only saw that victim as food. That’s sad that he was put into that situation. Those kinds of things always end badly.
Prayers for the victim. I’m sure her recovery will take a long, long time both physically and mentally. What a horror to have gone through just because someone wanted to keep a pet of that magnitude and let it roam like you would a child.
Actually, there were three booms. I've always wondered what the third one was for ... maybe one of the perps was still twitching.
> maybe one of the perps was still twitching.
LOLOLOL!!!!!
Good one!!
Glad the Texas grand jury refused to try him.
In Massachusetts, he’d be in jail, and the perps heirs would win all his possessions in a civil suit.
“In general, the people who do this seem to be risk takers who don’t think things through very well, or simply disregard anyone who tries to caution them.”
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A perfect description of all the mess right now with the libs determined to ruin us all. But, to get back on subject, both victims would probably be better off if the chimp had taken them out. Neither will have a life after this horror. Sad for the friend who went to help, not so much for the owner.
“You’re dismayed? Remember Joe Horn of Pasadena, Texas? He waited for the cops to arrive at that home invasion of his neighbor, for 8 minutes, and when the cops hadn’t arrived he went out and shot the two perps dead with his shotgun.”
For all interested....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7jqLie6-Y0
Um...A drug reacts different not only for different species, but within the same species. What works for me, may not work for you.
At least
I've read gorillas are 8x.
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