Posted on 06/18/2010 9:56:09 AM PDT by MissTed
A British woman who went to a Thai nature resort to conquer her fear of monkeys has been savaged by a pack of macaques.
Dee Darwell, 56, lost consciousness after the monkeys surrounded her and sank their teeth into her arms and body.
Many of the primates remained hanging from her limbs as she lay collapsed with blood spurting from a "deep, deep hole" in her arm.
She was eventually rescued by Thai boatmen and was taken to Bangkok Phuket Hospital.
The horrific attack happened on Monkey Island near to the popular holiday island of Phuket in southern Thailand.
"I thought I was heading for safety under this rock in the shade, only to cool down," Mrs Darwell, from Peterborough, said.
"I laid the towel down and there were no monkeys in sight.
"The next thing I noticed, this monkey walked up next to me and I thought, oh dear, and I began to stand up to move away.
"Then, the monkey took my wrist and pounced on my right arm, sinking his teeth in and hung off it.
"He wouldn't let go; he was locked on. I was absolutely petrified."
Thai fishermen ran to the rescue after spotting more monkeys joining the assault and began prising them off.
Mrs Darwell said she had agreed to go on the Siam Sea Canoe tour with a friend to confront her fear of monkeys.
Her phobia had been triggered by her father bringing up a chimpanzee which she described as "positively evil".
She said: "I thought, this is it, I'm going to die, I'm going to be savaged by these monkeys - then I went into shock."
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Monkeys sound a lot like Democrats.
Hippos are cannibals?
Who even has a life wherein they are faced with “monkey encounters”?
I hate monkeys therefore I do not frequent monkey infested places.
[which is really easy because as far as I know, there are no indigenous monkeys in the Appalachians]
This is why "homophobes" as they are called by the left should never visit Nancy Pelosi's district.
Contrary to popular belief, a barrel of monkeys is not fun; in fact, a barrel of monkeys is really quite frightening!
You shouldn’t have sent me that reply. It gives me a chance to tell you some personal snake stories.
When I was about 6.5 years old my parents and I moved from Chicago to the then far south suburbs and they bought a small house on what had recently been farm land. My poor mother felt about snakes just about the way you do. I, OTOH, thought they were great, and we had huge masses of garter snakes plus some green snakes. I proceeded to make the things into pets, carrying them around in my pockets and inside my tee shirt. One of the funniest things our former next door neighbor remembers is the sight of my mother standing on our back porch, a sick look on her face, holding my jeans out at arm’s length, and delicately turning the pockets inside out with the tips of her fingers.
Since then I’ve gotten over carrying them around in my pockets and inside my shirt but am still fascinated by them and watch just about every Discovery Channel and Animal Planet show about them I can find.
Now I live on two wooded acres in far west Knox County, TN and have periodic visits from our legless friends. A couple of years ago I had some major landscaping done on my place that included laying down a nylon mesh mat of the type that’s used on freeway embankments to prevent erosion. The mesh has a very tight weave, so tight that a snake can crawl into it and become trapped. That’s what happened to two rat snakes. I solved the problem by getting down on the ground, carefully clipping each one out of the mesh, and letting it go, even though one of them bit me as a way of thanks.
To show you how much farther gone I really am, there was a recent “Billy the Exterminator” show where the announcer announced that he’d come on an allegedly poisonous snake on a client’s property that he was going to remove. I, OTOH, identified it as a nonpoisonous corn snake, and that’s what it turned out to be.
Please call the Tennessee Department of Metal Hygiene.
I would have solved that by dropping dead right away and having the authorities free the snakes. Two different tactics, same result. You be insane, libstripper! lol
Thanks! Yeah, I agree with you on the 3rd and 4th movies.
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