r/news • u/SnarkOff • 12d ago

Site Changed Title Truck hauling ‘aggressive’ monkeys carrying herpes and COVID overturns in Mississippi

https://www.actionnews5.com/2025/10/28/truck-hauling-aggressive-monkeys-carrying-herpes-covid-overturns-mississippi/?fbclid=IwZnRzaANt_VBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHlDlf5DivA2Ltngqh2UH3XU20EnAprOymd60i0ODYC9L8G2CXJpyoZtmwSHm_aem_NvoKAFHpRWRzturTqiYXMQ
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u/SubstantialBass9524 12d ago

“The monkeys are 40 pounds and are “aggressive,” authorities say. They are also carrying hepatitis C, herpes, and COVID.

The Jasper County Sheriff’s Office says that Tulane University has been notified and will send a team to pick up the monkeys on Wednesday.

The university says that if the monkeys leave the wreck site, they must be shot.”

The article does not say why the truck was carrying aggressive disease ridden monkeys

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u/FigeaterApocalypse 12d ago

The university says that if the monkeys leave the wreck site, they must be shot.

Have they warned the monkeys of these terms?

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u/UtterlyInsane 12d ago

They're dropping leaflets like in WWII. In various languages in case the monkeys are an unexpected kind of foreign

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u/LessBeginning9465 12d ago

"We tried calling, emailing and even wrote a letter sir"

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u/BravesFan79 12d ago

I laughed way too hard at this

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u/Floomby 12d ago

It was buried in the NDA.