I guess you can never tell about chimps. One minute they're wearing diapers and puffing on Marlboros, and the next thing you know they're killing everyone in sight and speeding away in taxicabs:
Police hunted Monday for chimpanzees that escaped from a Sierra Leone preserve and mauled a group of American and local sightseers, killing one man and injuring four people.
The U.S. Embassy warned Americans against traveling to the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary, where the chimps escaped before Sunday's attack on a taxicab.
The Sierra Leonean driver died as the chimps ripped his body apart, and three Americans were treated at a hospital for minor injuries, said Oliver Somasa, a top police official.
Another Sierra Leonean man in the group had his hand amputated after the mauling, Somasa said. U.S. officials had no further comment. The Americans were in Sierra Leone to help build a new embassy building, Somasa said.
I knew gorillas were brutal, having seen General Ursus in action; but I really never expected this from the chimps.
Posted by floridacracker at April 24, 2006 01:26 PMYou know I had always heard that chimps were dangerous but I had no idea they were capable of something like this!
Posted by: Janette at April 24, 2006 04:47 PMIts Jumanji
Posted by: Cindy at April 24, 2006 07:31 PMIt's even worse when a chimp gets elected president of the United States of Amerikkka and has a fascist army and navy and nuclear warheads and stuff. Just like a Chimpy Hitler. Man.
Posted by: Bill from INDC at April 24, 2006 07:44 PMOMG, that poor cab driver.
Bill, as usual you're entertaining. lol
Posted by: Maggie45 at April 24, 2006 07:57 PMThey must have been planning this for *weeks*.
Posted by: Donnah at April 25, 2006 11:50 AMThere was a civil war in Sierra Leone for many years with bombings. The chimps were already stressed out. One chimp became insane and died.
Posted by: Joan at April 25, 2006 04:59 PM