Ya Gotta Shooot Em'

“… What is the monkey doing?”

Herold: “Please hurry up. He's killing my girlfriend!”

911 Operator: “Who is killing your friend?”

Herold: “My chimpanzee.”

In what has to go down as being the funniest 911 call to a horrific tragic event, the chimpanzee owner calling for the police to shoot her pet chimp. When the operator asks her who's killing her girlfriend, she actually tells him "My chimpanzee." Not "my crazy ass chimp", or"the crazy f*&%ing gorilla", but my chimpanzee.

Drugged tea
Travis was acting “rambunctious” on Monday. He had stolen the
keys to her car and gone into the yard. Trying to calm him down, Herold gave the
chimp some tea laced with the anti-anxiety drug Xanax. She also called her
friend, the 55-year-old Nash, who knew Travis well, to come over to help calm
him down.

Nash arrived in an unfamiliar car and emerged with her hair
done in a radically different style from what Travis was familiar with. Herold
speculates that perhaps the chimp didn’t recognize Nash and viewed her as a
threat. There is also speculation that the chimp’s behavior was affected by
medication he was taking for Lyme disease.

"I think it was that he
didn't recognize her and he felt whoever it was, it was a threat,” Herold said.

Whatever the reason, Travis charged at Nash and attacked her with
murderous fury. Herold and EMS workers said he ripped Nash’s face off and
attacked her hands with his powerful jaws. If somebody didn’t make him stop,
Nash would shortly be dead.

“I grabbed the shovel and hit him with the
shovel to stop it,” Herold said. “It wasn't working, so I went and I had to get
a knife — and I stabbed him. I had to.”

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