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

[gundog]

Monkey Lives Matter.

[packrat35]

Can’t blame her, there was literally a warning that diseased monkeys had escaped a truck accident last week.

[ronniesgal]

oh I know that- it was still worded poorly.

[Jamestown1630]

I think it means she shot it dead. She unalived it.

[Hot Tabasco]

The source changed the headline after I posted the story.

[dgbrown]

“Any self respecting 16 year old would have gone to get has riffle and shot it himself.”

I agree. You don’t run to mom until after you have shot it. She might tell you no.

[daniel1212]

“ Why would someone shoot a dead monkey?” That’s your question?

My question is, are you saying that you do not recognize sarcasm? When a publication write headlines such as,

Mississippi mom shoots dead monkey that escaped from overturned truck to protect her children"

it invites such sarcasm as "why would the women shoot a dead monkey that had escaped from an overturned truck in order to protect her children?"

A correct headline would be like, "To protect children [she said protecting others was also her motive] Mississippi mom shoots monkey dead which had escaped from overturned truck."

Yet I have often failed to clearly express what I wanted to.

[BiteYourSelf]

Call Rick Grimes.🤔

[stanne]

I recognize sarcasm

My question is, from the people who almost never fail to criticize a guy who takes many shots to hit his target why do they not recognize what a good job this woman did.

Not one compliment for her

[daniel1212]

I recognize sarcasm

That is good, for a I saw too many posts trying to explain that headline in response to obvious parody's of it. Typical FR.

from the people who almost never fail to criticize a guy who takes many shots to hit his target why do they not recognize what a good job this woman did.

True. We do have:

That lady was prepared. Good on her.

Any Mississippi mom would have done the same thing.

Good woman

[stanne]

Those were ALL from me. And only me.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

"But short of equivalency there remains plenty of room to respect animals lives and avoid harming them out of ignorance, whim, and malevolence. Some people actually view God’s creation as worthy of respect rather than callous exploitation."

Chewbarkah, thank you for your response! I do not disagree with you regarding God's Creation. Dodos, passenger pigeons, the great Auk all lost to exploitation. Malevolence? Those individuals are acting in ways they know are deliberately wrong. The only answer to curing ignorance is education, but the targets of the education have to participate. Start education young is suppose, before you lose their good will.

This lady encountered something that from outsider her range of experience. Based on her understanding from the media and the example of the police she acted to protect her and other people's children and understood it as act of protection. I suppose she would do this for things within her range of normal experience for something like Coyote or Black Bear. (I note that I misspelled "Morally" in my original post! )