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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
One can get practice using just plain ol' paper targets...
Practice.
The headline is bad grammar. The NY posts reporting on Misssissipi home protection culture
Why would she shoot it if it was already dead?
That has to be the “most Mississippi” thing you will ever read.
I’ve often swatted dead wasps - just to make sure.
Usually dead monkeys aren’t going be an issue so why waste ammo. 🙄
Oh and, she's a cute chick.
Beat me to it.
thats the only kind of monkees I’ve ever liked. Monkeys are just nasty
Isn’t there a penalty for mutilating a corpse?
Like the old joke..aure he’s dead? Hold on....bam. yes dead for sure.
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
That poor monkey was only trying to protect the woman's children. She didn't have to shoot it.
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
Thank you!
That was my question as well.
Just dang. English is a dead skill, I fear.
I can never remember the rhyme, so I just go by "Red, yellow, and black, grab a stick and take a good whack."
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.”
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