temnix Posted November 9 Posted November 9 From the Washington Times: "Authorities have not been able to capture a group of 43 young female monkeys that escaped from a research facility in Yemassee, South Carolina, this week. The rhesus macaques are in a wooded area near the Alpha Genesis non-human primate biomedical research facility and have not been recaptured, despite company officials putting out traps baited with food to entice them to return. The monkeys have been cooing to those that remained behind, the Yemassee Police Department said in an update on Facebook Friday. They are taking the food meant to bait them and getting away while watching the humans who are in turn observing the monkeys. “They’re jumping down and taking the food and then jumping back up on the fence and the tree line. They’re watching us the same way we’re watching them. We’ve got them very close,” Alpha Genesis CEO Greg Westergaard told CBS News. The monkeys have never been used for testing and are too young to carry and spread diseases to other monkeys and people. The group of 43, the largest number to ever escape the Yemassee facility, busted loose after a caretaker failed to properly secure the door to their enclosure. “It’s really like follow-the-leader. You see one go and the others go. It was a group of 50 and seven stayed behind and 43 bolted out the door,” Mr. Westergaard told CBS News."
WanderingAries Posted November 9 Posted November 9 K... Almost instinct marked it as spam, but the OP has normal posts. OG Server: Pinnacle <||> Current Primary Server: Torchbearer || Also found on the others if desired <||> Generally Inactive Installing CoX: Windows || MacOS || MacOS for M1 <||> Migrating Data from an Older Installation Clubs: Mid's Hero Designer || PC Builders || HC Wiki || Jerk Hackers Old Forums <||> Titan Network <||> Heroica! (by @Shenanigunner)
Etched Posted November 10 Posted November 10 Planet of the monkeys has begun! Be afraid, kinda a little afraid!
Luminara Posted November 10 Posted November 10 Get busy living... or get busy dying. That's goddamn right.
Ghost Posted November 10 Posted November 10 (edited) 4 hours ago, Luminara said: Such a great movie! Easily Pitts best role. Edited November 10 by Ghost
Luminara Posted November 10 Posted November 10 4 minutes ago, Ghost said: Easily Potts best role. That Bred Potts done good. 1 Get busy living... or get busy dying. That's goddamn right.
WanderingAries Posted November 10 Posted November 10 3 hours ago, Ghost said: Such a great movie! Easily Potts best role. IDK, I kinda like the "Wait! No, no, no. Accident!" movie a little more. OG Server: Pinnacle <||> Current Primary Server: Torchbearer || Also found on the others if desired <||> Generally Inactive Installing CoX: Windows || MacOS || MacOS for M1 <||> Migrating Data from an Older Installation Clubs: Mid's Hero Designer || PC Builders || HC Wiki || Jerk Hackers Old Forums <||> Titan Network <||> Heroica! (by @Shenanigunner)
WanderingAries Posted November 10 Posted November 10 5 hours ago, Ghost said: Run little monkey, run! OG Server: Pinnacle <||> Current Primary Server: Torchbearer || Also found on the others if desired <||> Generally Inactive Installing CoX: Windows || MacOS || MacOS for M1 <||> Migrating Data from an Older Installation Clubs: Mid's Hero Designer || PC Builders || HC Wiki || Jerk Hackers Old Forums <||> Titan Network <||> Heroica! (by @Shenanigunner)
Ghost Posted November 10 Posted November 10 4 hours ago, Luminara said: That Bred Potts done good. Stupid auto-correct. Stupid me for knowing there is stupid auto-correct and still not proof reading.
Luminara Posted November 10 Posted November 10 49 minutes ago, WanderingAries said: IDK, I kinda like the "Wait! No, no, no. Accident!" movie a little more. I was thinking about a John Wick/Mr. & Mrs. Smith crossover last night. I'd watch the hell out of that. Get busy living... or get busy dying. That's goddamn right.
InvaderStych Posted November 11 Posted November 11 12 hours ago, Ghost said: Easily Pitts best role. Certainly one of the top two. 👍 I'm partial to Periwinkle Blue myself. 🤣 Call me weird, but Snatch is on my list of "I need to just watch something familiar that makes me unreasonably happy" movies. You see a mousetrap? I see free cheese and a f$%^ing challenge.
Techwright Posted November 12 Posted November 12 (edited) On 11/9/2024 at 4:05 PM, WanderingAries said: K... Almost instinct marked it as spam, but the OP has normal posts. Nope. I live in the state, and it's real. Unfortunately. It's been front page news here. First thing I referenced to a family member when I heard about it was a state legend, possibly true. Back when I was in the Scouts around the late 1970s to early 1980s, we knew every wild and dangerous animal in the state. We went primitive camping often, so it was needed knowledge. Not on that list were coyotes. They didn't exist here. The only wild canines were foxes, and the Carolina Yellow Dog, a.k.a. the American Dingo. (Absolutely lovely dogs, BTW. I intend my next pet to be a domesticated one.) Fast forward to the year 2010, and coyotes are "everywhere". The YMCA was getting reports of coyotes chasing joggers and bikers. Pets and farm animals were being killed, and in places the wildlife balance was being affected. The legend is that the coyotes were part of a experiment brought into the state, and someone didn't keep them penned in properly, the mistake was (somewhat badly) hushed, and there was enough for a breeding population. The state officers who track such things started seeing them show up in the east of the state around 1977. Since east is coastal, and a coyote migration would have come from the west, you can see why the legend of an escape makes a certain sense. So you can imagine my vexation at hearing these monkeys not only escaped, but have not been entirely re-captured. Actually, the team trying to trap them was announcing "significant progress" over the weekend for having captured one of them. One. That said, they did better the second try. There are now 25 of them recaptured as of Sunday evening. I've not seen an update since. You'd think something like this would happen near Liberty Island or the National Mall in Washington, DC, or something, but noooo. It had to be here. 🙉 Edited November 12 by Techwright
Luminara Posted November 12 Posted November 12 13 hours ago, Techwright said: Actually, the team trying to trap them was announcing "significant progress" over the weekend for having captured one of them. One. That said, they did better the second try. There are now 25 of them recaptured as of Sunday evening. Amateurs. I would've had the entire troop eating out of my hands and sleeping next to me in that span of time. 1 Get busy living... or get busy dying. That's goddamn right.
WanderingAries Posted November 13 Posted November 13 21 hours ago, Techwright said: Nope. I live in the state, and it's real. Unfortunately. It's been front page news here. Yeah, I don't get to my normal socials until After here because this takes less time, so hadn't seen those flow by yet. 😛 1 OG Server: Pinnacle <||> Current Primary Server: Torchbearer || Also found on the others if desired <||> Generally Inactive Installing CoX: Windows || MacOS || MacOS for M1 <||> Migrating Data from an Older Installation Clubs: Mid's Hero Designer || PC Builders || HC Wiki || Jerk Hackers Old Forums <||> Titan Network <||> Heroica! (by @Shenanigunner)
ThaOGDreamWeaver Posted November 13 Posted November 13 Side note: in Polish, there’s a phrase, “nie moj cyrk, nie moje malpy”. (“Not my circus, not my monkeys” = not my problem). I’ve always wondered if that was a punchline, but never found the other half. Any ideas? WAKE UP YA MISCREANTS AND... HEY, GET YOUR OWN DAMN SIGNATURE. Look out for me being generally cool, stylish and funny (delete as applicable) on Excelsior.
Techwright Posted November 15 Posted November 15 Well, on the one hand, they've managed to retrieve 35 of the monkeys by last published count. (Clearly they didn't contact Luminara for help.) On the other hand, now the state is looking for a few escaped emus. 🙄
Luminara Posted November 15 Posted November 15 28 minutes ago, Techwright said: On the other hand, now the state is looking for a few escaped emus. Bred Potts done it again. Get busy living... or get busy dying. That's goddamn right.
WanderingAries Posted November 15 Posted November 15 1 hour ago, Techwright said: Well, on the one hand, they've managed to retrieve 35 of the monkeys by last published count. (Clearly they didn't contact Luminara for help.) On the other hand, now the state is looking for a few escaped emus. 🙄 Are we sure they're Emus and not Pushmi-Pullyu's? 1 OG Server: Pinnacle <||> Current Primary Server: Torchbearer || Also found on the others if desired <||> Generally Inactive Installing CoX: Windows || MacOS || MacOS for M1 <||> Migrating Data from an Older Installation Clubs: Mid's Hero Designer || PC Builders || HC Wiki || Jerk Hackers Old Forums <||> Titan Network <||> Heroica! (by @Shenanigunner)
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