The last known herpes-infected lab monkey at large in Mississippi since a truck carrying dozens of the animals from Tulane University to another facility crashed on I-59 last week was fatally spanked Sunday morning by an armed mom of five outside of her home near the crash site, the AP reports.
“I did what any other mother would do to protect her children,” Jessica Bond Ferguson, who has five children ranging in age from 4 to 16, told the AP about how she got real patriotic after her 16 year-old son told her he spotted the diseased and “aggressive” rhesus monkey outside. “I shot at it and it just stood there, and I shot again, and he backed up and that’s when he fell,” Ferguson continued.
The monkey’s remains were recovered by the Mississippi Department of Fish and Wildlife. Details on whether department officials held a special staff BBQ on Sunday evening were not available.