911 tape captures chimpanzee owner's horror as 200-pound ape mauls friend

NY Daily News ^ | 2/18/09 | Edgar Sandoval and Rich Schapiro I

[DogBarkTree]

The chilling screams of a crazed chimp mauling a Connecticut woman were captured on a 911 tape - along with the animal's owner begging, "Send police with guns!"

The 15-minute recording captures the bizarre horror of Monday's attack, which left a 55-year-old woman critically injured and the 200-pound ape dead in a hail of police gunfire.

"Hurry, please! He ripped her face off," the ape's frantic owner, Sandy Herold, 70, is heard telling the dispatcher on the tapes released Tuesday night.

"Listen to me, you have to shoot him."

[DogBarkTree]

Marlon Brando said it best in Apocalypse Now. "The horror, the horror".

[Texican72]

And people think Pit Bulls are dangerous...

[MrB]

A 70 yr old woman keeping a wild 200 pound animal with the strength of 5 men in her house.

Gosh, how long before he figured out that he could be the dominant animal around there?

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Or Heston: “...damn, dirty ape!”

[IbJensen]

It could have been premeditated murder.

[dfwgator]

What purpose was served by releasing the 911 tape to the media?

[Crim]

Lets me guess....she’s a liberal...

Oh I can own a 200 pound chimp and control him...sure I can....he wont hurt anyone....

This is the same way they approach all threats.....scoff and assume they can control things..

[penelopesire]

“What purpose was served by releasing the 911 tape to the media?”

Is anyone else sick of the chimp story? The press needs to start investigating the chump in the White House!

[DuncanWaring]

The chilling screams of a crazed chimp mauling a Connecticut woman were captured on a 911 tape - along with the animal's owner begging, "Send police with guns!"

Could be the germ of a Vin Suprynowicz column.

[Da Coyote]

And that’s just what the loons are going to do to the country in the next few years.

If you’ve got children, they’re SOOoooooo screwed.

Democrats - they’ve got what it takes to take what you’ve got, and what your children might have had.

It’s what happens when folks who have no talent or creativity get into politics.

[supremedoctrine]

Yeah, it’s the classic liberal conceit....Obama had plans to invite Canadian Geese and Chimps to the White HOuse in the first week, until recent events....like starry-eyed Clinton with the Crips and the Bloods. The woman said “He was all I had....” , obviously forgetting about her friend Charla, who faces the future, if she has one, with no face to speak of......
Think there might be some laws now about chimp ownership?

[unojook]

It takes a Village of Monkeys to Raise DummyRats

[Jagman]

Not to be ghoulish, but there's something about apes ripping people's faces off that seems to be hardwired into them.

[metmom]

She’s saying (and crying) “He’s eating her” and “He’s ripping her apart.”

She’s begging them to hurry.

What a horror to watch an animal attack and eat a person. That woman will never be the same.

[Hacklehead]

I bet she wished she kept a gun around the house.

[WayneS]

None.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Send lawyers, guns and money.

[WayneS]

Yup.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Or Heston: “...damn, dirty ape!”

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Or Sellers: “Filthy Minkey!”