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Leave drunky monkey alone
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Well, they got a pet monkeyHe likes to get drunkyAnd sing boogie woogie and it sounds real funkyCome on, your time boy, sing one monkey — Ray Stevens, “Gitarzan,” 1969Ray Stevens didn’t mean anything bad with his classic comic suggestion of a drunk chimp.But it turns out that a drunk chimp isn’t really all that funny.In fact an adult chimp on various drugs is absolutely terrifying — especially when he’s over 200 pounds and homicidal.And it would seem that most adults should know that, but Charla Nash is now suing another official for the attack on her that came at the home of a “friend” who was living with the adult male chimp — and who was, well, “casual” with him.According to the Associated Press report: “A Connecticut woman who was mauled and severely injured by an out-of-control chimpanzee and is now suing the state, says Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, as then-mayor of Stamford, knew the animal was dangerous.“In an interview with The Hartford Courant, Nash said the chimpanzee got loose and roamed Stamford in 2003. “She says Malloy knew the chimp’s owner, Sandra Herold, and allowed her to take him home and warned that he should be locked up.