Posted on 11/03/2025 5:23:16 AM PST by V_TWIN
A Mississippi mom shot dead one of the aggressive monkeys that escaped from an overturned truck last week to protect her young children.
Jessica Bond Ferguson said she and other Heidelberg residents had been on high alert after word spread that monkeys — believed to be carrying dangerous diseases but later confirmed by officials not to be — had been roaming loose since Tuesday.
Early Sunday morning, her 16-year-old son ran into the house, claiming he had seen one of the animals in the yard.
“I shot at it and it just stood there, and I shot again, and he backed up and that’s when he fell.”
With police and animal control still, the mother of five said she decided to shoot the monkey, fearing it would get away and possibly would become a threat to children at another house in the neighborhood.
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Why would someone shoot a dead monkey?
Didn’t like their music.....................
Isn’t the news media trained to write headlines? This one is particularly horrible.
You bet!!
“ to be carrying dangerous diseases but later confirmed by officials not to be — “
Ok.
“ Why would someone shoot a dead monkey?”
That’s your question?
Monkeys are people too!...Now he will never have the chance to get the help he so desperately needed. Oh, the humanity!
I wouldn't trust any company saying the monkeys were not carrying diseases.
Not “shoot the monkey”
Micky Dolenz is the only one left.
Maybe it was just pining for the fjords.
Well, the Wrecking Crew were the musicians on their first 3 albums.
Then, when the Monkeys “allegedly” began playing their own instruments, the group faded away.
Yes. My question as well. Seems redundant to shoot dead monkey. Would you spank dead monkey?
I know! Maybe monkeys have two lives….
Has P.E.T.A. filed a lawsuit yet? Did she have a license for that firearm? What is the over/under on the time before some leftist bureaucrat or ‘green’ organization commences legal action that will require her to employ a $1,500/hr lawyer which she probably cannot afford?
Remember, the process is the punishment for us little people ...
Considering that’s exactly what the authorities said to do when the escape occurred, what’s the question.
Mississippi mom shoots dead monkey that escaped from overturned truck to protect her children: ‘I did what any other mother would do’
Early Sunday morning, her 16-year-old son ran into the house, claiming he had seen one of the animals in the yard.
She is nieve if she thinks every mother would do that. We have many crazy woman in this country that would scream and cry and then blame the government looking for reparations for their trauma.
Any self respecting 16 year old would have gone to get has riffle and shot it himself.
Yeah, right.
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