Mississippi mom shoots dead monkey that escaped from overturned truck to protect her children: ‘I did what any other mother would do’

nypost.com ^ | Nov. 3, 2025 | Richard Pollina

[EvilCapitalist]

Why would someone shoot a dead monkey?

[Red Badger]

Didn’t like their music.....................

[madison10]

Isn’t the news media trained to write headlines? This one is particularly horrible.

[Sacajaweau]

Good for her...They weren't exactly pets. Now would their keepers lie to us??

You bet!!

[stanne]

“ to be carrying dangerous diseases but later confirmed by officials not to be — “

Ok.

[stanne]

“ Why would someone shoot a dead monkey?”

That’s your question?

[equaviator]

Monkeys are people too!...Now he will never have the chance to get the help he so desperately needed. Oh, the humanity!

[T.B. Yoits]

One would best assume the monkeys were from a lab.

I wouldn't trust any company saying the monkeys were not carrying diseases.

[Magnum44]

I said

Not “shoot the monkey”

[EvilCapitalist]

Micky Dolenz is the only one left.

[Clay Moore]

Maybe it was just pining for the fjords.

[newfreep]

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.

[DariusBane]

Yes. My question as well. Seems redundant to shoot dead monkey. Would you spank dead monkey?

[Magnum44]

Oh, that was monkey, not Monkees. My mistake.

[clintonh8r]

I know! Maybe monkeys have two lives….

[ByteMercenary]

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 ...

[Professional Engineer]

Considering that’s exactly what the authorities said to do when the escape occurred, what’s the question.

[Steven Scharf]

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.

[Fresh Wind]

...believed to be carrying dangerous diseases but later confirmed by officials not to be...

Yeah, right.