AFAIK, they aren’t from a lab like the dozens that escaped in the southeast a while back. It (they?) appear to be in the O’Fallon area.
A bullet we, sadly, dodged.
I want a monkey. Reckon one could get down here to South Arkansas. I’ll catch it.
Name him “Gonzo”
And hug him alot. And give lots of treats.
Yeah, we’ll be besties!
Teach him to get the cats down from the rafters for you! <3
Hey, @Shoeless ? Where did that restaurant/meal/check, please/wife’s friend/index finger story occur, and when??
My father had a monkey. It stole his smokes from his pocket and shat on his shoulder periodically.
Ahh, dad couldn’t master balancing his smokes on his shoulder.
When I get a free moment, I’m going to ask AI if it can find any prior instance of those same words being strung together in that same order before.
Anywhere.
Try it without “periodically”. Surely this is/was a well trained monkey.
Fun Fact. In March 2017, a half-dozen steers escaped from a Kosher slaughterhouse in St. Louis and ran the streets for more than three hours before finally being rounded up.
https://fox2now.com/news/workers-wrangle-cattle-in-north-st-louis-after-slaughterhouse-escape/
That’s a great name.
In the summer of 2024, a water buffalo escaped from a yard in suburban Des Moines. He was named PHill, after the town of Pleasant Hill, and was eventually captured by police - sadly, a nonfatal gunshot. He was nursed back to health and lived out his days in a nearby animal sanctuary, where he died in early 2025; I had heard that it was lead poisoning (literally!) but this story says otherwise.
How did PHill end up in Iowa, you may ask? A man of Nepalese descent ordered four of them from a breeder in Kansas, and was keeping them in his backyard. At least one had already been butchered, and PHill and any other survivors were taken to the sanctuary, because the man had not obtained the necessary permits to keep livestock within city limits. He was allowed to keep the meat he had already processed.
I saw something on IIRC Reddit from a poster who admitted that as a younger man, yeah, he shouldn’t have driven home drunk, but he did, and on the way home, he thought he saw an ostrich run across the highway in front of him. He pulled over and called 911, and when he described his general area, the dispatcher asked for more details and said that no, he was not hallucinating; there was an ostrich farm nearby, and several birds had escaped and 4 of them were still at large. This was in central Wisconsin.