This facility, Jungle Exotics, might need to reevaluate their ability to keep these animals safely caged.

This is what happened to the chimp's "owner" there (new window)

Silly subby. How can a "he" be a thespian?

ohnonotfloridaagain:This facility, Jungle Exotics, might need to reevaluate their ability to keep these animals safely caged.

This is what happened to the chimp's "owner" there (new window)

How odd I was just thinking about that guy today- in addition to losing his eye and nose the chimp literally ripped his ass off. Guess they do have the strength of 6 men. And they were there for the monkey's birthday party, with cake and hats.

Chimps. The pit bulls of the animal kingdom.

Getting my nose, butt, thighs and testicles bit off would be enough for me to give up on the chimp-experiment...

I used to live pretty close to this guy. When we were kids we'd bike behind this guy's house and wait to see Moe climb up into the top part of his cage. After the authorities took Moe away, this guy was out on his front lawn every day for years with a sign that said "Free Moe" or something of the like, and I'd honk every time I passed by. I used to feel sad that what they consider a family member was taken away from them. One day I decided to stop there and talk to the guy. I don't remember much of the conversation, but I just remember that he creeped me out so much that I thought Moe was better off out of their hands. And then when those other chimps mauled him and bit of his testicle(s?), it was all the more ....expected?

DrMcNinja:I used to live pretty close to this guy. When we were kids we'd bike behind this guy's house and wait to see Moe climb up into the top part of his cage. After the authorities took Moe away, this guy was out on his front lawn every day for years with a sign that said "Free Moe" or something of the like, and I'd honk every time I passed by. I used to feel sad that what they consider a family member was taken away from them. One day I decided to stop there and talk to the guy. I don't remember much of the conversation, but I just remember that he creeped me out so much that I thought Moe was better off out of their hands. And then when those other chimps mauled him and bit of his testicle(s?), it was all the more ....expected?

I saw them unloaded out of the helicopter and rolled into surgery. The monkeys bit his wifes finger off too. You probably would have liked that. I didnt really enjoy it that much.

Skilled thespian ...


......................Moe the chimp

mikaloyd:I saw them unloaded out of the helicopter and rolled into surgery. The monkeys bit his wifes finger off too. You probably would have liked that. I didnt really enjoy it that much.

1) I didn't say I enjoyed it, screw head. Just expected.
2) They were chimps, not monkeys.
3) Gimme the fife.

oldebayer:Silly subby. How can a "he" be a thespian?

"he" is only attracted to women. isn't that what a thespian is?

This is the same "Moe" that ripped his previous owner's nuts off? Oh geez...

JonnyBGoode:This is the same "Moe" that ripped his previous owner's nuts off? Oh geez...

Moe didn't, two other chimps did (who were shot dead at the time of the incident, if I remember correctly). But yeah, that same Moe.

I submitted this days ago! Bastages!
Troglodyte on the loose!

Actually, the owner was bring the birthday cake to Moe, and since he didnt bring enough for all the monkeys, He got his nuts ripped off. Lesson, Always bring enough cake. To monkeys.

Moe's owners..
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20080701/chimp-escape/images/c0f8f672-0 f34-4f12-8f6a-1edad3abb5f3.jpg

"Welcome to the jungle, Moe! Watch out for those creeps at the bus stop. "

Them Thespians... another case of a woman doing a MAN'S job!!!
Don't get me started.

/obscure?

DrMcNinja:I used to live pretty close to this guy. When we were kids we'd bike behind this guy's house and wait to see Moe climb up into the top part of his cage. After the authorities took Moe away, this guy was out on his front lawn every day for years with a sign that said "Free Moe" or something of the like, and I'd honk every time I passed by. I used to feel sad that what they consider a family member was taken away from them. One day I decided to stop there and talk to the guy. I don't remember much of the conversation, but I just remember that he creeped me out so much that I thought Moe was better off out of their hands. And then when those other chimps mauled him and bit of his testicle(s?), it was all the more ....expected?

One of the vets at my school likes to say that "owning primates is a cry for help". He's an exotic animal vet.

That got me thinking, I wonder if you could train a chimp to drive a car. It probably wouldn't be able to learn road rules. But just the concept of accelerating, braking and steering.


hmmm....

Mr Logo:That got me thinking, I wonder if you could train a chimp to drive a car. It probably wouldn't be able to learn road rules. But just the concept of accelerating, braking and steering.

Check out I95 or I40 any given day.

Nice close up of the owner's nose. Glad it's not a shot of the other missing 'item' (new window)

What I find most shocking is :
The local authorities are treating the missing ape case as not really their business. "We're not doing anything," says Arden Wiltshire, a public information officer for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department. "With it being a domesticated or somewhat domestic animal, I believe it's being treated as a private matter."

As proven by story itself, a chimp can be quite a dangerous animal, domesticated or not.

dailysmack, he's got the magnets on his nosehole...I'd assume he left it off deliberately, I can't find much on his career stats but he's a former NASCAR driver, which means a lot on FARK-I assumed subby's headline is a Jocko Flocko reference Link (new window)
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ohnonotfloridaagain actually Moe escaped from the showbiz animal refuge of the guy who created Benji, above San Berdoo; Link (new window)
however, his "parents" were attacked @ ANOTHER facility, up in Kern County;
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mikaloyd, you weren't a target like DrMcNinja...the reason the press went "meh" after this St. James guy got attacked is he & his wife were rather publicly nonplussed after Moe bit off a woman's finger & mangled up a policeman's hand that's run $250,000 in surgery
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Okay DrMcNinja, now that we established you're outta Covina-do you have any Rocky Dennis stories?

New Sign: "Beware of losing body parts, Chimpanzees just don't throw feces."

I think he jumped a train and is heading for the Pacific Northwest, where he'll blend in.

i see this guy all the time, well, sometimes. i told him years ago not to mess them damn dirty apes. he didnt listen.

FlyingJ, your last two links are broken. Still, quite a bit of backstory.

It's just not a good idea to bond so closely to an exotic or wild animal. Tempting fate, etc...

That is the most tragic and sadly hilarious story I've read in al ong time. I hope Moe comes home soon.

Clearly they should have taught Moe Kung Fu. I saw a chimp in Buffalo that could break bricks, not boards, bricks. That chimp would have farking mopped the floor with those ball grabbers. If only Moe had a knife (at the time of said ball grabbing incident.)

He's NASCAR (NASCAR Winston West, 136 starts, 3 top tens.) but to complete teh weird, his longtime attorney is Gloria Allred.

/You know else without a nose was a client of Gloria Allred?

Own a chimp, pay the price. They're unpredictable, c'mon, what we're they thinking, that a chimp was like a dog or a cat, you know, an actual pet? Fools, same goes for 'owners' of lions and tigers. Sheesh.

I remember visiting Moe as a kid (Orangewood elementary). He was more like Curious George. The monkey is actually in their wedding pictures from the 60s. They didn't have any biological kids so the monkey was a stand-in.

I live about three blocks from them now. I feel for them, but Moe was becoming a problem long before the bit the woman's finger.

He'll murderize ya'!

/Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk

GodsTumor:Skilled thespian ...


......................Moe the chimp and Ronald Reagan


FTFY

Mo' betta pictures of what happens when Moe's crew give you mo' than what you bargin fo'. The Sun is there. Lips and nose, not so much.
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Danger Avoid Death:GodsTumor:Skilled thespian ...


......................Moe the chimp and Ronald Reagan


FTFY

Reagan was a thespian? That explains the hair...

"St. James, who worked in 1967 as a merchant seaman, says he rescued Moe as a baby from poachers in Tanzania who had killed and mutilated his mother" (from the article)

...why do people thinking buying animals from poachers is helping? It's actually fueling poaching, they "acquired" the baby chimpanzee with the intent of selling it, and once someone buys it, guess what, they now have a reason to do it again. Is there some line of reasoning I'm missing here in which people can conceive that they are "helping" the animal in question?