'He’s Eating Her! Shoot Him!' Screamed Chimp's Owner Caution: Graphic Content

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'He’s Eating Her! Shoot Him!' Screamed Chimp's Owner  Caution: Graphic Content

By  ANDREW PERGAM
Updated 2:55 PM EST, Wed, Feb 18, 2009
http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/Chimp-Tape-Hes-eating-her--Shoot-him.html

“He ripped her face off! Please, please hurry,” screamed Sandra Herold into her phone. The ‘he’ was Travis, her 200-pound domesticated chimpanzee who went on a violent attack Monday in Stamford, Conn.   

On the call, you can hear the owner of the chimp describe to dispatchers how the animal was attacking her friend and pleaded with him to send police officers...

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In an interview set to air on NBC’s "Today Show" Wednesday, she said:

“He looked at me like, ‘Mom, what did you do?’ I tried to pull him but he was to strong, so I called 911 and told them to get up here as fast as possible.”
 
In that graphic 911 call, Herold, the primate’s owner, implored police to shoot the animal as it was attacking her friend, Charla Nash, 55. Herold had asked Nash to come over to help calm the chimp when he started acting up.

“They got to shoot him because I tried stabbing him and it didn’t work. They gotta shoot him,” she said.

Herold is at times frantic, at times sobbing. Travis could be heard squealing in the background.

Herold described a violent scene:

    * “He’s eating her! He’s eating her!”
    * “Bring the guns. You have to kill this chimp.” 
    * “She’s dead… He ripped her apart.”
    * “Her face?,” a dispatcher asked.
    * “Everything.”

Nash was not dead, but was severely disfigured. Wednesday, she remained in critical condition at a local hospital.

“Shoot him,” Herold kept shouting into the phone. “Tell them to shoot him. Tell them to shoot him. Tell them to shoot him.”
When police arrived, she continued shouting to them to “shoot him!”.

Then came this over the crackle of the radio: “Person down, chimp outside.”

Officers remained in their vehicles at first. Herold did the same.

But at some point, Travis the chimp tried to get into a squad car. 

“It just opened up one of the patrol cars and we had to let a couple go,” an officer said into a radio.

“Rounds fired,” a dispatcher responded.

At that point, Travis went running back through the house. Some officers gave chase while others tended to the victim.

Nash’s injuries were so serious that an officer presumably couldn’t tell her gender. “Hey listen,” one officer said over the radio, “We’ve got to get this out of here. He’s got no face.”

The attack lasted 12 minutes, which must have felt like an eternity.

On Tuesday, Capt. Richard Conklin, of the Stamford Police Department, said that the Department of Environmental Protection “turned a blind eye; that they allowed the couple to possess Travis.”
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The investigation into what caused the chimpanzee to attack continues. They are trying to determine if the chimp's actions were caused by a bout of Lyme disease, a reaction to drugs or a case of instinct taking over.

Police said the primate’s head and torso have been separated so a state lab could test for rabies, as required under state law.  The body has been transported to the University of Connecticut for a necropsy, an animal’s version of an autopsy.   

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http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/Chimp_Attack_911_tapes_released_Hartford.html

What a bunch of garbage...so of course instead of questioning the medical community for prescribing such a violent drug, they feel it's best to prevent owners from having these as pets.

Read the comments on this link if you really want to grasp some insight on this twisted mentality that wants to blame the owner and have her charged with animal cruelty and charged for what happened to her friend.

GRRRGGGGHHHHH

Why don't we just stop taking these dangerous violent drugs???

DUHHHH  That would be to easy...

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Antidepressants and Violent Behavior

http://www.neurosoup.com/cymbaltacourtcases.htm

          The SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) are antidepressants patterned after Prozac (fluoxetine) and include Celexa, Lexapro, Luvox, Paxil, and Zoloft. These and two other non-SSRI antidepressants, Serzone and Remeron, are widely suspected of contributing to suicidal and/or violent behaviors, especially in children. This point of view has recently been adopted by the U.S. Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) somewhat more slowly than its British counterpart, the Medicines Control Agency. In England, for instance, use of Paxil in children has been banned, amidst allegations of a cover-up by the drug's manufacturer.

          In the United States, use of these antidepressants for patients under 18 years has not been approved by FDA, with the exception of Prozac. This means that both the healthcare professional who prescribes or dispenses these drugs for children and adolescents and the pharmaceutical company that promotes this "off-label" (unapproved) use knowingly take a risk with the patient's safety.

          SSRIs have become famous for their alleged ability to induce children to violence and suicide in such high profile cases as that of Christopher Pittman who ran away from his home in Florida to his grandparents in South Carolina at age 12. He is suspected of having killed his grandparents and burned down their house after being treated with Paxil followed by Zoloft.

          SSRI antidepressants have been implicated in a number of the school shootings: Shooters alleged to be on antidepressants at the time of their attacks include:

          o 18-year old Eric Harris on Luvox who with Dylan Klebold killed 13 and wounded 22 people April 20, 1999 at Columbine High School in Littleton Colorado

          o 15-year-old Kip Kinkel on Prozac killed his parents and then proceeded to school where he opened fire on classmates, killing two and wounding 22 others

          o 14-year-old Elizabeth Bush on antidepressants when she wounded one student at Bishop Neumann High School in Williamsport, Pa.

            18-year-old Jason Hoffman on Effexor and Celexa when he wounded one teacher and three students at Granite Hills High School in El Cajon, Calif.

            Violent and suicidal behavior linked to SSRIs is not limited to adolescents. Fully one-third of all drug-related suicides since 1990 for which FDA has data are associated with Prozac use, according to Keith Altman of Fibonacci Group.

            The warning issued by FDA in a "Dear Health Care Professional" letter against use of SSRIs in children appears to indicate a major shift in national policy that will have major impact on pending lawsuits in this area.

            - John Lehmann PhD, DrugIntel Nov 11, 2003.