 EFL: ROYAL, Neb. - Three chimpanzees from a small-town zoo were shot and killed after they escaped from their enclosure and could not be captured, the zoo director said. The primates at Zoo Nebraska were able to get out of the cage Saturday when a padlock was not completely closed after cleaning, said zoo director Ken Schlueter Jr. He killed the animals with a deputy's service revolver after a tranquilizer gun didn't show any effect. No people were hurt, state patrol spokeswoman Deb Collins said. After the chimps lifted the padlock and broke out, employees immediately moved visitors in an office area, but the chimps tried to get into the building, Schlueter said. | "Look out, they're using power tools!" |
"When it became apparent there'd be danger here, they had to be destroyed," Schlueter told the Lincoln Journal Star. | Can't let them talk to the press, eh? |
Schlueter did not immediately return a message left for him by The Associated Press on Monday. The Nebraska State Patrol and Antelope County Sheriff's Department were called to help capture the animals. A fourth chimpanzee also escaped, but quickly returned to its cage, officials said. | Likely the mastermind, we see the same action by islamic clerics |
The seven-acre zoo opened 18 years ago as the Midwest Primate Research Facility with one animal — a chimpanzee named Reuben, one of those killed Saturday. | So, exactly what kind of research you been doing with these chimps? |
Schlueter said the chimps weighed up to 300 pounds or more, and he shot two of them with a tranquilizer gun, but the tranquilizers had not taken effect after five minutes. | After years of "research", I'm not surprised |
The danger chimps pose to humans was highlighted when a man and his wife were attacked by chimpanzees March 3 at the Animal Haven Ranch near Bakersfield, Calif. The man was severely mauled and the woman lost part of her thumb before the animals where shot to death. | That was the "Birthday Party" incident. And we're supposed to think this is not part of a larger movement by chimps to destroy humanity |
The Nebraska animals' carcasses were flown Sunday to a zoo in St. Louis, where autopsies were planned.
"Something out of the ordinary for you, Dr. Quincy!"
"Boy, I'll say, Sam! Put 'em over there by the Pakistani Christians..." |
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