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Hard to believe the monkey went....monkey.
Damn this story makes me feel terrible.
Hard to believe the monkey went....monkey.
This makes me want an attack chimp
Finally took the veil off her face and it is indeed pretty gruesome. Click the vid:
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/victim-...9053544&page=1
I rather look at the Hominy gull bladder photo.
Damn. I remember hearing this story when it first happened, can't believe it was back in February. is ed up.
Jesus! Poor woman, but seriously who the keeps a chimp as a pet... The woman friend is responsible for this.
Having a wild animal as a pet is just ridiculous..I love animals and I've had experiences with huge wild animals in zoos..and while they're very interesting and exciting, having one as a pet is just ridiculously stupid..
This is what happens when people are idiots..having one as a pet is just irresponsible..
There's something fishy about this story.
For one thing, chimps don't weight 200lbs - they weight up to about 60kg, or 130lbs. Also, how exactly could a chimp bite someone's hands off and rip off their face? Chimps have similar mouths to humans - you think you could bite someone's hand off? Maybe a finger, but a hand? And as for the face - scratching I can imagine, but taking someone's face off would require super-sharp talons, or a scalpel.
Maybe it's just the usual hyperbole in reporting (I thought reporting was meant to be about getting the details right, but meh), but this sounds like a set up to me.
Okay - so what happened to this woman? And why did the responding officers kill the chimp? Set up for what or whom?
chimps are very capable of what went on with this lady... anthropology courses are your friend!
chimps are what like 5x as strong as man. as for biting i can totally see a chimp biting fingers off... i'm sure their jaws are way stronger than ours.
ok, you come up with a theory for her face looking like that...
What are you Dian Fossey?
This is the stupidest I've read.
Ruff, maybe you missed it when it happened, but this was all over the news. It was a horrible story. Chimps are much stronger than humans, even though they're smaller. (For the nerds reading this, it has to do with longer muscle insertion points).
Pretty much this
It's veterans day. Who gives a about some stupid and her ing psychotic chimp. I'm glad her hands got eaten and her face ripped off. Chimps aren't pets. They belong in the wild, not in some suburban hole. People this stupid don't deserve to live.
so, to offset this re ed thread, I'll post an article on Veterans day. A big thanks to all those who serve presently or have in the past. I'm an Iraq war vet myself who knew quite a few people who didn't make it back from the sandbox. Today is for them.
Veterans Day: Why It's Today, How It's Changed & More
Brian Handwerk
for National Geographic News
November 11, 2009
At Veterans Day celebrations and events around the country, the United States is honoring the men and women of the nation's armed forces.
So why is November 11 Veterans Day? Who is it for? And how has it changed?
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In keeping with Veterans Day tradition, U.S. President Barack Obama today laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, saying, "While it is important and proper that we mark this day, it is far more important we spend all our days determined to keep the promises that we've made to all who answer this country's call."
(See pictures of Arlington National Cemetery, site of the annual U.S. national Veterans Day ceremony.)
Speaking from the National Veterans Day Observance, Joe Davis, spokesperson for the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States (VFW), described the standing-room-only scene.
"You have the President, you have cabinet members, you have the joint chiefs, and you have the public, veterans and family members, gathered to pay tribute to the sacrifice of all who served in uniform," he said. "And I would include their families as well, because they definitely also served."
Similar Veterans Day events will be carried out in cities and towns across the United States today, recognizing the 48 million men and women who have served or are serving in the U.S. Armed Forces, including 23 million living U.S. veterans and active duty service members.
(Related: "U.S. Veterans Day Marked by Release of Vets' Stories.")
Veterans Day Date Marks End of "Great War"
In the U.S., Veterans Day began as Armistice Day, commemorating the end of World War I. The so-called War to End All Wars ended with an armistice signed at 11 a.m. on November 11, 1918, in Compiègne, France—the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
In the U.S., President Woodrow Wilson commemorated the first Armistice Day in 1919. It was made a national holiday via an act of Congress in 1938.
After World War II it became clear that the World War I armistice marked only the ending of World War I, not of war itself. The holiday was renamed Veterans Day to honor all those who served in the U.S. military.
In 1954 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a bill designating November 11 as Veterans Day.
Veterans Day Long Weekends Lost
In 1968 Veterans Day was moved, by an act of Congress, to the fourth Monday in October. This shift of Veterans Day (as well as similar moves for Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, and Columbus Day) was designed to create a three-day weekend for government employees.
The Veterans Day long weekend, though, was resisted by many states, localities, and veteran's groups. By 1978 Veterans Day was again rescheduled for annual observance on November 11.
Last "Great War" Veterans Nearly Gone
In the United Kingdom and other past and present nations of the British Commonwealth, November 11 is still Armistice Day.
World War I veterans are remembered by the wearing of real and artificial red poppies, like those found in Belgium after "In Flanders Fields"—the name of a popular World War I poem eulogizing fallen British soldiers. Armistice Day is also marked with two minutes of silence at 11:00 a.m.
For honoring service members in general, the U.K. has its own Veterans Day—renamed Armed Forces Day in 2009—which falls in June of each year.
This year's British Armistice Day ceremonies held special poignancy, because 2009 saw the loss of the last World War I veterans living in the U.K: Bill Stone, 108; Henry Allingham, 113; and Harry Patch, 111. Australian resident and British Navy vet Claude Choules, 108, is now the last known British survivor of the Great War.
One U.S. veteran survives from the war that gave birth to Veterans Day: Frank Buckles, 108, of West Virginia. Canadian John Bab , 109, also survives and currently lives in Spokane, Washington.
France and Germany have no known living World War I veterans.
November 11 is not celebrated in Germany, which was defeated along with other Central Powers countries. This year, however, the German nation for the first time took part in French Armistice Day celebrations in a very public way.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel joined French President Nicolas Sarkozy for a Paris ceremony that not only honored the dead of past conflicts but stressed reconciliation between the former foes.
Who Does Veterans Day Celebrate?
The VFW's Davis said some people remain confused about who the United States' various military-oriented holidays honor.
Memorial Day, the last Monday in May, is set aside for Americans to honor those who died in service of the country.
"Veterans Day is about everybody who wore or continues to wear the uniform," he said. "It's a very select group of American citizens that have had the opportunity to do that."
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thats alot of monkeys
The woman who got pulverized and maimed was not the owner of the chimp you ing moron.
yeah its weird they put her on tv on veteren's day.
my grandpa had his finger degloved by a giant gorilla.
I thought for sure that tree hugger Evolutionist Ruff would give his great grandfather more credit!
Showing empathy towards a woman whose face got ripped off by a chimp doesn't shaft the Vets just because you're showing empathy towards her on Veteran's Day.
It wasn't her fault some stupid was so selfish she had to have a unique exotic pet chimp.
Maybe Wild Cobra and Darwin were right this proves survival of the fittest.
true but the oprah show had 364 other days to schedule the interview
Dude, chimps are vicious. There was a story a couple of years back about a married couple who had one, surrendered it to a refuge, and the damn chimp attacked him and bit his junk off when they went to visit. This is actually becoming a common story, which is stupid, because it means lots of people are keeping them..
Yeah Oprah is a ratings-hog, but people who just feel for the poor woman aren't in the wrong just for feeling sorry for her.
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