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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

Posted on 11/03/2025 5:23:16 AM PST by V_TWIN

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To: EvilCapitalist
Yes, if it's already dead why shoot it again?

One can get practice using just plain ol' paper targets...

41 posted on 11/03/2025 5:54:56 AM PST by OKSooner (We are all mortal... But Jim and his website have made a significant difference in my life. RIP)
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To: enumerated
"Why shoot a dead monkey?"

Practice.

42 posted on 11/03/2025 5:56:06 AM PST by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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To: OKSooner

The headline is bad grammar. The NY posts reporting on Misssissipi home protection culture


43 posted on 11/03/2025 5:56:48 AM PST by stanne
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To: V_TWIN

Why would she shoot it if it was already dead?


44 posted on 11/03/2025 6:00:04 AM PST by bayliving
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To: V_TWIN

That has to be the “most Mississippi” thing you will ever read.


45 posted on 11/03/2025 6:00:18 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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46 posted on 11/03/2025 6:01:42 AM PST by plain talk
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To: V_TWIN

Would you like to touch my monkey?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLlbWiTo_wQ


47 posted on 11/03/2025 6:02:44 AM PST by Zack Attack
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To: alancarp

I’ve often swatted dead wasps - just to make sure.


48 posted on 11/03/2025 6:05:56 AM PST by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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To: EvilCapitalist

Usually dead monkeys aren’t going be an issue so why waste ammo. 🙄


49 posted on 11/03/2025 6:08:20 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: V_TWIN
The whole thread goes by and nobody asks, "Which firearm did she use?".

Oh and, she's a cute chick.

50 posted on 11/03/2025 6:08:36 AM PST by GingisK
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To: EvilCapitalist

Beat me to it.


51 posted on 11/03/2025 6:09:01 AM PST by KevinB (I don’t really care, Margaret.)
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To: Magnum44

thats the only kind of monkees I’ve ever liked. Monkeys are just nasty


52 posted on 11/03/2025 6:11:33 AM PST by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: V_TWIN

Isn’t there a penalty for mutilating a corpse?


53 posted on 11/03/2025 6:14:08 AM PST by alternatives?
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To: EvilCapitalist

Like the old joke..aure he’s dead? Hold on....bam. yes dead for sure.


54 posted on 11/03/2025 6:17:48 AM PST by DouglasKC
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To: bayliving

If she has a loaded gun and there’s a dead monkey famous for being on the rampage with bad diseases and t
She’s in Mississippi, patron state of shooting stuff, why would she shoot it

Jack Bauer always would tell protogees shoot him in the chest, then shoot him again. That’s what I’d go with

However. This is a just bad headline the non- article readers are outing themselves in neon here

The NY Post interpreting basic housekeepeng in Mississippi.

I lived in Mississippi and if I saw a cottonmouth moccasin like my fellow n-hood wives had done, frolicking in my backyard I’d shoot it. I’d probably call my husband first but if all that resulted in was a buzz in a flight suit in a fighter jet at 30,000 ft, I’d get the Glock out

I once got my axe out and violently dissected a snake in my driveway. The boys told me, no, don’t kill those they kill rodents and bla bla bla

It’s like when the guys showed us military nurses power points on how to ID local snakes red on yellow kills a fellow, black on… and my buddy nurse from Massachusetts leaned over to me saying red onyellow…what? f that. I see one of those in the f outta there


55 posted on 11/03/2025 6:17:59 AM PST by stanne
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monkey that escaped from overturned truck to protect her children

That poor monkey was only trying to protect the woman's children. She didn't have to shoot it.

56 posted on 11/03/2025 6:18:39 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: stanne

Ugh

I meant:
If she has a loaded gun and there’s a dead monkey famous for being on the rampage with bad diseases and She’s in Mississippi, patron state of shooting stuff, why would she NOT shoot it?

But it was alive.

Read it

Good woman


57 posted on 11/03/2025 6:20:27 AM PST by stanne
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To: EvilCapitalist

Thank you!

That was my question as well.

Just dang. English is a dead skill, I fear.


58 posted on 11/03/2025 6:23:45 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: stanne
red on yellow kills a fellow

I can never remember the rhyme, so I just go by "Red, yellow, and black, grab a stick and take a good whack."

59 posted on 11/03/2025 6:24:11 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: EvilCapitalist

That’s what the NY Post wants to know.

Maybe they are too far away from wildlife and home protection. Why didn’t she just call the super?

One could ask, how would a healthy monkey die wandering around someone’s back yard after falling off a truck

He wouldn’t. It was as alive as you

The article, if you skim it for about 5 seconds, says:

“ “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 not yet on the scene, the mother of five said, she decided to shoot the monkey, fearing it would get away and possibly become a threat to children at another house in the neighborhood.”


60 posted on 11/03/2025 6:25:49 AM PST by stanne
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