UPDATE: Mom shoots last crazy monkey from overturned truck – saves kids

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A few days ago we brought you the extremely strange story of aggressive monkeys who were full of Hepatitis C, Herpes and COVID and escaped after a truck carrying them overturned in Mississippi.

Yes, I know that’s a weird sentence, I still can’t believe I typed it.

But that’s what happened, details here:

BREAKING: Truck carrying ‘aggressive’ monkeys carrying hepatitis C, herpes and COVID overturns in Mississippi

Why we keep injecting these animals with serious diseases I have no idea, but I think that’s beside the point.

All the monkeys were killed or captured in the accident, except one that was still on the loose…

At least that’s how it was until today, when a Mississippi mom saw it in her yard and shot it:

NY Post More details were:

A Mississippi mother shot one of the aggressive monkeys that escaped from an overturned truck last week to protect her young children.

Jessica Bond Ferguson said she and other Heidelberg residents were on high alert after word spread that monkeys — believed to be carrying dangerous diseases, but officials later confirmed they were not spreading dangerous diseases — had been roaming free since Tuesday.

Early Sunday morning, her 16-year-old son ran into the house and claimed he had seen an animal in the yard.

She said, she saw the monkey about 60 feet from her house and decided to take matters into her own hands to ensure the safety of her children.

“I did what any other mother would do to protect her children,” Bond Ferguson told The Associated Press.

“I fired at him and he stood there, and I fired again, and he stepped back and that’s when he fell.”

The mother of five said that since police and animal control were not yet on the scene, she decided to shoot the monkey because she feared it would escape and possibly become a danger to children at another house in the neighborhood.

“If it attacked somebody’s kid, and I could stop it, that would be a big deal to me,” Bond Ferguson said.

“It’s a little scary and dangerous that they’re running around, and people’s kids are playing in their yards.”

In a post on social media, the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that a homeowner found one of the monkeys on his property Sunday morning, but did not provide any other details.

The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks has since taken control of the animal.

Great job!!

She seems like an amazing mother and amazing person!

Here’s the full original report in case you missed it:

BREAKING: Truck carrying ‘aggressive’ monkeys carrying hepatitis C, herpes and COVID overturns in Mississippi

If your bingo card for today read “Truck carrying ‘aggressive’ monkeys carrying Hepatitis C, Herpes and COVID in Mississippi”, congratulations you’re a winner!

At this point, none of us should really be surprised anymore, so I guess it’s par for the course in today’s world.

Wild Stuff:

I have a few questions…

Why are we still infecting animals with Covid?

Not to mention Hep-C, Herpes and what not?

And why are they “aggressive” monkeys?

Were they always aggressive, or did they only become aggressive when they found out you injected them with all these toxins?

Here’s a look from the scene:

There were 21 monkeys on the truck, 15 remained caged, 6 escaped, 5 were captured, 1 is still on the loose, and 20 were euthanized:

fox news Confirmed the following details:

A truck carrying monkeys from Tulane University in New Orleans overturned on a Mississippi highway, freeing several large, “aggressive” monkeys.

After the crash north of Heidelberg, several rhesus monkeys ran into the community, according to the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office.

“The monkeys are about 40 pounds, they are aggressive to humans, and they require PPE [personal protective equipment] To handle,” the Sheriff’s Office wrote in a Facebook post.

Representatives said the animals carry hepatitis C, herpes and COVID.

By 4:30 p.m. ET, all but one of the escaped monkeys had been “destroyed,” according to representatives.

“We are continuing to search for a monkey that is still on the loose,” the sheriff’s office wrote in a Facebook post. “If you see monkeys, do not approach them. Call 911.”

Tulane University tells Fox News Digital that the Tulane National Biomedical Research Center provides its non-human primates to other research organizations to advance scientific discovery.

“The primates in question belong to another unit and are not infectious,” the university said. “We are actively cooperating with local authorities and will send a team of animal care experts to assist as needed.”

School officials did not confirm the number of monkeys who escaped, the number of monkeys killed or the number of monkeys kept in cages.

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