Police hunt killer chimps

[vniow]

FREETOWN (Reuters) - Armed Sierra Leonean police are hunting up to 20 chimpanzees which killed a local taxi driver and injured three American visitors after they broke out of a wildlife sanctuary, officials said on Tuesday.

The Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary in forested hills outside the Sierra Leonean capital Freetown where the incident happened, has been closed since Sunday's attack by the screaming and excited apes, which mobbed and mauled the four men.

"Some people had turned up at the gate before normal opening time, and before staff could react, they realized somebody was being attacked," the sanctuary's director, Bala Amarasekaran told Reuters.

And one of them's a member here!!!

http://today.reuters.com/news/artic...9496_RTRUKOC_0_US-SIERRALEONE-CHIMPANZEES.xml

 

[nbs2]

And one of them's a member here!!!

How on earth did you manage to find that one...no activity since 8/04...wow

But for the taxi driver tragedy, I would have called this hilarious - something funny about a chimp rampage. The (political) question is should they be put down? I hope nobody answers that. I'd hate for this article to get pulled out of the public eye (only the hardy venture into the Angry Forum ).

Oh - and I think this may be proof that text just doesn't carry emotion, since it sounds more like an invitation than a warning (it shouldn't have been its own paragraph):

"You can go into the Maasai Mara (Kenya's most famous game reserve) and be killed by a leopard," he added.

 

[redeye be]

So, miloblithe finally got around to organising his monkey revolution.
Thank god it started on the other side of the world.

 

[aquajet]

"We humanize them but we're referring to wild animals here. Some chimps are highly territorial and can attack and kill. They may have seen these people as intruders," he said.

Oh my. It's so ironic, it hurts.

 

[dmw007]

And one of them's a member here!!!

http://today.reuters.com/news/artic...9496_RTRUKOC_0_US-SIERRALEONE-CHIMPANZEES.xml

Yikes! I did not know that chimps can be criminals too!