Somebody better warn her not to walk down the beach.
She may not like what she finds...
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
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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From the first time I saw monkeys and chimps at a zoo I was repelled by them. I’m actually far more comfortable with nonpoisionous snakes.
Oh jiminey crickets! Put me in a barrel full of monkeys before even one garder snake. {{{shudder}}}
You're lying about the "bikini-clad" part, aren't you?
You’re lying about the “bikinis and fur boots” part, aren’t you?
It is said that Pablo is very wily...and possibly contagious.
“Which one is the hippo?”
The one that looks like Michelle Obama.
...or angst. Or angsty toads.
"Where am I??....Ah, Phucket!"
FMCDH(BITS)
Somebody better warn her not to walk down the beach.
She may not like what she finds...
So I have heard.
I have never though of fearing monkeys, I just know that I detest them. I don’t like to look at them or even look at pictures of them.
On cable the other night, they talked about Florida and all the non native species that are living there now. Monkeys or chimps (can’t remember which) are supposed to be living and breeding in the Everglades. Along with Boa Constrictors and other giant snakes, now there are Monitor lizards.
Good grief Floridians get out there and hunt these critters down!
Kramer: Yeah, but before I met up with her, I stopped to look at the monkeys,
when all of a sudden I am hit in the face with a banana peel. I turn and look
and there is this monkey really laughing it up. Then someone tells me that he
did it. Well, I pick up the banana peel and I wait for that monkey to turn
around. And then I *whap* let him have it.
Jerry: Kramer, you threw a banana peel at a monkey?
Kramer: Well, he started it!
Jerry: It’s a monkey, Kramer!
Kramer: Well, he pushed my buttons, I couldn’t help it, Jerry.
Jerry: Well, I still think it’s wrong.
Kramer: Alright, alright, fine. You take the monkey’s side, alright, go ahead.
Jerry: I’m not taking anyone’s side.
I don’t necessarily dislike them at all. They’re cute in their natural environment. I just have a strong sense that they are very powerful, unpredictable, and best left alone. I don’t really have any more fear of them than I would say, a large wolf. Though I know some techniques that might be effective against a wolf, but I wouldn’t know the first thing to do if I found myself in the unenviable position of having to fight a monkey for my life.
Exposure Therapy Fail x 100
No it’s going to help my phobia to those dirty $1000 bills and fear of drowning in gold.
The name of my next band.
We laugh at those drug commercials that portray the liberty some new pill will bring a patient suffering some ailment, then quickly lists the horribly adverse side affects—sometimes even death.
Side effects indeed....
Your screen name is awesome.
As far as I’m concerned, Hicks is still alive. The third and fourth movies never happened.
“Death therapy - it’s the ultimate cure.”
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