Chimp in Conn. attack had unusual bond with owner
Travis the chimpanzee’s relationship with his owner, a lonely widow, was closer than those of some married couples. She gave him the finest food, and wine in long-stemmed glasses. They took baths together and cuddled in the bed they shared. Travis brushed Herold’s hair each night and pined for her when she was away. If she left the house alone, Travis would give her a kiss. “If I left with someone Travis would get upset,” Herold said Wednesday.
Experts say the unusually human relationship would have been confusing for any animal. It may have also played a role in Travis’ savage attack Monday on Herold’s friend, 55-year-old Charla Nash of Stamford.
“This is a crazy relationship,” said Stephen Rene Tello, executive director of Primarily Primates, a sanctuary for chimps in Texas. “He was probably very bonded with her. I can kind of see it in his eyes this is his surrogate mother.”
You know, I’m wondering if maybe there’s a remake of Psycho in this that’s more compelling than the last one.
I get quote of the week over at Crittenden’s, but then he goes and writes this:
I’m still trying to figure out how comparing Congress to a bloated, rampaging, lobster-fed, alcoholic chimp is racist. Shooting them sounds like a thoughtful, measured editorial position.
You just can’t win. Still, I’ll take it.
Robert Stacy McCain bowdlerizes Ace out of malkiphobia.
I listened to that 911 call. I can’t laugh at this old woman, though her monkey barrel was short of a few monkeys.
See, this is exactly why I won’t listen to that 911 call. My understanding, though, is Travis took a huge bath in the market and was depressed about the direction of the country. That’s what bothered me a little about the cartoon.
In the Ceci n’est pas une pipe vein:** That’s no ape, he’s my baby……erm……husband……erm……buddy.
ain’t looking good for baracky
ain’t looking good for W
#4
suck it
If Rush Wimbaugh had a chimp named Reagan and they diddled each others balls in the airport?
What the fuck, it’s a lifestyle, man, a big Evangilical-fuck-you if don’t like it!
All those folks protesting the cartoon are too stupid to involve themselves in politics. They need to step back and ask themselves how they became so stupid.
Same goes for thorazine.
Thor and his hamster have a totally platonic relationship I am sure.
“I’m still trying to figure out how comparing Congress to a bloated, rampaging, lobster-fed, alcoholic chimp is racist. Shooting them sounds like a thoughtful, measured editorial position.”
I think this is event #2 on Rick Santelli’s calendar, right after the Chicago Tea Party he spoke of yesterday on CNBC…
“They took baths together and cuddled in the bed they shared.”
TMI!…
Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink…Know what I mean?…Say No More!
For a moment there, I was afraid Travis was thor.
She said he could use the computer, liked looking at pictures of Russian whores or something.
Thor, I’m glad the cops didn’t shoot you, I guess.
Travis can hold a cogent line of thought for longer than 10 min.
In tangental news:
The “reality-based” community had a great video of John Gibson comparing Eric Holder to a monkey for their two-minute hate yesterday.
Too bad it was a fake. Great job, HuffPo and Kos.
http://homepage.mac.com/mkoldys/blog/rex256797662.html
Also of interest perhaps: I guess they could spare some Change and a bit of Hope on the side.
DNC still owes city of Chicago $1.7 million dollars for Obama Victory celebration.
[Chicago has yet to recoup the $1.74 million cost of President Obama’s victory celebration in Grant Park — despite a burgeoning $50.5 million budget shortfall that threatens more layoffs and union concessions.
“The Democratic National Committee has not yet paid us,” Peter Scales, a spokesman for the city’s Office of Budget and Management, said Thursday after questions from the Chicago Sun-Times. “We’re reaching out to them this week.”]
Financial wizards We’re in good hands.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1441157,CST-NWS-rally20.article
The Democratic National Committee has not yet paid us
I wouldn’t hold your breath, Peter. They won, remember?
They’ve got bigger institutions to loot. Your corrupt little city doesn’t matter to them any more.
Sorry!
I sure hope they used protection for those intimate moments. Thor and the hamster that is.
Are you kidding, donald? The hamster’s had a restraining order on thor for months now. That may be why the troll is so much more incoherent than usual these days.
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Are you kidding, donald? The hamster’s had a restraining order on thor for months now. That may be why the troll is so much more incoherent than usual these days.
Are you saying thor has a blue scrote?
Thor to hamster: “MORE LUBE!! GODDAMMIT MORE LUBE!!”
Hamster to thor: “Is it in yet?”
Mother? No, I don’t think mother is the right female relationship that this involved. More of a Jane Goodall-Gorilla sort of relationship. So to speak.
Can’t be racist. Ted Kennedy is white and nobody fits that caricature better than he.