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Monkey Phobia Woman Savaged By Macaques
Sky News ^
| 6/18/10
| Staff
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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KEYWORDS: fear; fearofmonkeys; macaca; macacamoment; macaques; monkey; monkeybusiness; monkeys; napl; phobia; phobias; phuket; simianphobia; thailand; whenmonkeysattack
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To: The_Victor
Demon Moustache Squid Roasts?
To: shibumi
62
posted on
06/18/2010 10:53:57 AM PDT
by
PzLdr
("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
To: All
Hell, I won't drive over bridges because of this:
To: a fool in paradise
Least she didn't run into this monkey..
Yiiikes!
64
posted on
06/18/2010 10:54:14 AM PDT
by
MissTed
(I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger.. Then it hit me.)
To: shibumi; a fool in paradise; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; ...
A British woman who went to a Thai nature resort to conquer her fear of monkeys has been savaged by a pack of macaques. Always check the side effects before embarking on a course of therapy.
65
posted on
06/18/2010 10:55:52 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Cpl. Dwayne Hicks
Good call, you never can play it too safe...
To: Richard Kimball
Seriously. Why the heck did she feel a need to conquer her fear of monkeys? And to travel all the way from the UK to Thailand in this quest? I think the monkeys correctly sensed that a human nutjob had arrived in their midst, and figured it posed a threat.
To: Slings and Arrows
savaged by a pack of macaques. Everyone has their Macaca moment.
68
posted on
06/18/2010 11:02:08 AM PDT
by
humblegunner
(Pablo is very wily)
To: a fool in paradise
To: MissTed
Evidently her monkey-phobia was there for a purpose.
70
posted on
06/18/2010 11:04:01 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
To: Richard Kimball
Ive found that my life is not diminished in any way by the absence of monkey encounters.Good thing you don't work in my building!
71
posted on
06/18/2010 11:05:27 AM PDT
by
Eaker
(Pablo is very wily)
To: Slings and Arrows
I can’t believe it! Seventy-one posts, and no one said, “I hope the monkeys are all right.”
To: TheOldLady
What’s going to happen to them? Food poisoning?
73
posted on
06/18/2010 11:28:29 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: MissTed
To: Richard Kimball
Perhaps she had to move to Philidelphia.
75
posted on
06/18/2010 11:35:15 AM PDT
by
TheThirdRuffian
(Nothing to see here. Move along.)
To: Never on my watch
The same thing would happen to a homophobe who goes to San Francisco to overcome his fear of gays."Welcome to Bangkok, sweetie!"
76
posted on
06/18/2010 11:36:03 AM PDT
by
andy58-in-nh
(America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
To: Slings and Arrows
todesangst results in tode?
77
posted on
06/18/2010 12:13:49 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Proudly buzzkilling the illusion of confidence in the progress of humanity for 35 years.)
To: shibumi
Good thing she wasn't afraid of Hippos! Too easy........
78
posted on
06/18/2010 12:19:05 PM PDT
by
commish
(Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to preserve it.)
To: Slings and Arrows
AIDS
Herpes
Moles
Common cold
Warts
Bad breath
Zombification
Moosery
Naked hippos
Pablo
To: a fool in paradise
It was an Engrish menu item that gave me my tagline. I still haven’t figured out what it means.
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