![]() ![]() How many people go crazy and kill other people? This is one incident that I don't know what happened. “We can give them a blood transfusion, and they can give us one. She replied: “Would I have done it again? Yes! They're the closest thing to humans - to us. Months after the attack, she bravely appeared on Oprah to show her injuries.Īfter the incident, NBC reporter Jeff Rossen asked Sandra: “After what you've been through with this - your friend is in the hospital fighting for her life - do you still think chimps should be pets?" He ran back into the house and collapsed dead on his bed.Īfter paramedics arrived on the scene, they believed Charla - slumped in a pool of her own blood with no recognisable features - was dead.Īfter realising she was still breathing, she was rushed into surgery and underwent a 72-hour operation while surgeons attempted to reconstructĬharla now lives in a care home with a new face and will rely on carers to look after her for the rest of her life. Travis the Chimp was treated like a son by his owners Sandy and Jerry. But one day, the 200lb ape snapped, launching a savage, 12-minute attack on his owner's friend. not much else we can title this one, really. ![]() Travis the chimp was a local celebrity, who ate in restaurants and used the toilet. He opened one of the police car doors and lunged at an officer.ĭespite being shot four times at point-blank range Travis didn't die straight away. Crazed pet chimp wails as he rips off woman's face and eats eyes in harrowing phone call WARNING: Graphic content. When the police arrived, Travis continued on his rampage. Rishi Sunak under huge pressure to solve 'pensions minefield' Iran slammed for doing the Houthi's 'dirty work' in UAE attack Taliban show their true colours as women pepper sprayed in street Sandra recalls: "He looked at me like, 'Mom, what did you do?" In a desperate attempt to get the primate off her friend, the then 70-year-old grabbed a shovel and hit him over the head, and even stabbed him in the back. Sandra, who was the only one to witness the full attack, claimed Travis approached Charla aggressively before getting on his hind legs, throwing her against the side of her car before launching the savage attack. Travis had known Charla - who was 55 at the time - for several years but she had recently changed her hair around the time of the attack and there are claims he had become startled by this and lashed out. However, just six years later they would be proved very wrong when the grown-up chimpanzee attacked Charla. Pomahac said in an interview with The Associated Press that doctors will probably attempt another double hand transplant on her with a new donor after waiting at least six months for Nash to heal.Luckily, he didn't manage to catch the person but it took police several hours to entice him back to his owners and the incident led to a new law being passed in Conneticut - no one could own a primate weighing more than 50lbs.Įven though Travis showed concerning behaviour, he was allowed to stay with his owners after the authorities decided he didn't pose a threat. ![]() Fighting back tears, he called the operation "miraculous." Her brother Steve Nash said his sister wants to enjoy hot dogs and a slice of pizza from their favorite pizza parlor in Poughkeepsie, where they spent their childhood. "I think her new face will allow Charla to be present when Briana graduates from college in a few short years." "We know it broke her heart," Pomahac said, pausing to control his emotions. She had to skip her only daughter's high school graduation last spring because she was worried she would become the center of attention. Nash will be able to go out in public without feeling self-conscious, Pomahac said. She did not appear at a hospital news conference Friday, and no photographs of her after the surgery were released. Over the next several months, she will develop more control over facial muscles and more feeling, letting her breathe through her nose and develop her sense of smell. More than two years later, Nash received skin, underlying muscles, blood vessels, nerves, a hard palate and teeth from a dead person whose identity was not released. She could talk but was barely understandable. The animal ripped off Nash's hands, nose, lips and eyelids before being shot and killed by police.Īfter the mauling, Nash's eyes were gone and she had only a small opening instead of a mouth to take in pureed food. In February 2009, she was attacked by a neighbor's 200-pound pet chimpanzee, named Travis, which went berserk after its owner asked Nash to help lure it back into her Stamford, Conn., house. ![]()
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