Monkey Attacks Cop During Traffic Stop

[Tony_FLADEM]

When a police officer in Aransas Pass, Texas, pulled over a driver to issue a ticket, he had no idea what passenger was lurking in the back seat.

Officer Keith Moore reached into the truck and, as he handed the ticket to the driver for his signature, was grabbed by a tiny hand. It was monkey, Moore said, and it bit him.

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Moore pulled his hand away, but the entire exchange with the primate was caught on a camera attached to the officer's uniform.

"I wasn't angry. I was just more shocked and surprised than anything else," Moore told the New York Daily News.

Moore's boss, Chief Eric Blanchard, told ABC News today that the monkey, who works with the driver as an entertainer, had no teeth and wasn't able to bite down too hard on Moore. The department found the whole exchange humorous, he said.

The one person who may not have found it so humorous? The driver, who was ticketed for speeding anyway, Blanchard said.

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/monkey-attacks-cop-during-traffic-stop-211031712.html

[Warren DeMontague]

1. <---has an alibi.

[jberryhill]

2. Can you use the carpool lane that way?

[Fire Walk With Me]

3. Cops who smell like bananas. I don't know what it means, but I don't like it. n/t

[pinboy3niner]

5. Moral: Always wash your hands after banana donuts. :)

[ZombieHorde]

4. I am glad the police officer wasn't hurt.

I wonder why the monkey didn't have any teeth.

[TheMadMonk]

6. Has no teeth? Why? What it did is almost certainly why.

Now the question is: Was it the owner, or some dingleberry chewing arsehole of a vet?

In either case, I wouldn't mind spending an entertaining hour or so with my knee on their chest and a pair of pliers in my hand. Hold the Novocain.

[newfie11]

8. +1

That was my first thought also.

[justiceischeap]

9. "Pet" monkey's have their teeth removed so they don't do damage

when they bite... 'cause they're gonna bite. This is why it's cruel to keep wild animals as "pets."

[Poll_Blind]

7. I'd rather a wild animal like that live and die in their natural habitat.

Even if that means a shorter, more brutal life. But at least a natural one.

PB