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Fringey Mini - I'm sure they got all the infected monkeys by now · Journey to the Fringe

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  This is being carried by multiple news outlets,
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  so I'm just gonna pick one and read it. This
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  one is coming to you from The Independent. Oh
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  yeah, I forgot to mention, with all the confusion,
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  I'm not giving you a choice of category this
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  week because I found this far too interesting.
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  This article from October 29, 2025. Okay, somewhat
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  topical for your fringy minis. Yeah. Pretty recent.
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  Coming to us from the independent in this instance,
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  it was the first one that I could open up and
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  it's titled by Rachel Dobkin and Greg. I've never
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  seen Greg spelled this way ever in my life. G
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  -R -A -I -G. Kind of like Craig. Yeah. Phonetically,
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  there's nothing wrong with it, but I hate it.
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  I really do hate it. I didn't even know that
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  was something I could hate. Grazziosi. Crews
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  continue to hunt for three aggressive research
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  monkeys who escaped truck crash on Mississippi
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  Highway. there didn't seem to be an update on
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  that. At one point I saw one that said one is
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  remaining so they probably killed two of them
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  unfortunately. But here we are reading this one.
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  I didn't see an update that they caught the last
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  one. Three aggressive monkeys are still on the
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  loose after a truck transporting them overturned
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  in Mississippi, officials confirmed. The truck
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  was loaded with caged rhesus monkeys when it
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  crashed on Interstate 59 North of Heidelberg
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  on Tuesday. It is still not clear what caused
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  the truck to overturn. Okay, fair enough. Yeah,
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  I just remembered three are missing. I assume
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  there were three in total. Fair enough for you
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  saying that. Maybe there were only three. We
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  have no clarification. There's somewhere between
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  three and three thousand. We got to assume. Yeah,
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  exactly. No less than three. Either three or
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  three thousand. That's my guess anyway. Certainly
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  not four. That would've been awkward if that
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  one didn't want to partake, so it just sat there,
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  didn't escape. It was driving the truck. The
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  truck was loaded with caged rusa's monkeys when
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  it crashed, despite reports initially suggesting
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  that the monkeys were carrying infectious disease.
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  Oh, I remember this. Including hepatitis C, herpes,
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  and COVID -19, Tulane University, where they
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  were being housed, denied the case. The primates
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  aren't infectious. Actually, it says the primates
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  dot dot dot aren't infectious. I wonder what
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  those dot dot dots are covering up. We're actively
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  collaborating. I bet it's, and don't quote me
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  on this. collaborating with local authorities
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  and will send a team of animal care experts to
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  assist as needed," the university wrote. Tulane
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  stressed to The Independent that the monkeys
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  have not been exposed to any infectious agent.
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  The monkeys, which the Associated Press says
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  are among the most medically studied in the world,
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  were being transported to a testing facility
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  in Florida, Connecticut, WFSB reported. Jasper
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  County Sheriff Randy Johnson told local outlet
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  WAPT that 21 monkeys were on the truck, six of
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  whom initially escaped. We were way off. Oh,
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  so they were able to thwart like half of them
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  right off the bat. Yeah, unless all of those
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  other ones died in the crash and the other ones
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  took off. Quote, the monkey that got away actually
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  crossed interstate, went out into a wooded area,
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  Johnson said. That was broken English. I wonder
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  if Johnson is a native English speaker. Initial
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  reports suggested. Only one monkey was still
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  on the loose, but after Jasper County officials
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  were able to reach the wreck safely, they discovered
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  two others had also fled from the wreck. The
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  driver of the truck told local law enforcement
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  that the monkeys were dangerous and posed a threat
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  to humans. The department wrote in a Facebook
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  post warning the public they were aggressive.
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  Tulane previously told The Independent that the
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  monkeys left the Tulane National Biomedical Research
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  Center in Covington, Louisiana and were traveling
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  to a non -Tulane -affiliated location. The primates
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  in question belonged to another entity, the university
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  said, adding that they were not being trans -
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  Transported by a Tulane affiliated service sounds
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  like Tulane wants nothing to do with these monkeys
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  I just gotta say like we're talking about an
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  accident and the name of the research facility
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  is Tulane like a road is just weird The monkeys
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  that escaped and were recovered have been destroyed,
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  according to officials. I hate it when they use
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  that word. Mississippi Wildlife and Fisheries
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  also responded to the scene. Tulane will send
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  a team to pick up the monkeys that are still
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  caged on Wednesday, according to authorities.
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  In the wake of the incident, PETA issued a statement
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  calling the incident an example of the risk posed
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  by the greedy monkey experimentation industry.
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  While it can be hard to manage age What? I think
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  I went to a different article. Anyhow, I think
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  that's the end of the article. This wasn't exactly
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  the article I was hoping for, and I'm left confused
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  a little bit as to if they weren't full of herpes
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  and COVID. Who would even want a racist monkey
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  then? Did the truck driver just make it up? Like,
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  where did this come from? Something tells me
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  that this truck driver had multiple accidents
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  in his past, and they told him like, you gotta
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  be really careful. These monkeys, they got herpes.
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  And like COVID and I don't know, what are you
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  scared of? Yep, they got that. They got a lot
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  of that. Just like incentivize them to drive.
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  You gotta be careful. Any wrong moves and these
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  monkeys will give you herpes. So much herpes.
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  Anyhow, that's the article. I was kind of left
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  like it was reported publicly by something like
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  not just a rumor by like somebody who should
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  have known that these things were infected with
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  things and like a weird amalgamation of many
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  things and i don't know if they were ordering
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  like separate infections with monkeys or if they
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  all had all of these infections and tulang came
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  in rather aggressively with those aren't our
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  monkeys and they do not have any infectious diseases
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  which I really hope there was a reporter at the
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  time that's saying like well how do you know
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  they don't have these if they're not your monkeys?
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  The Independent did a very poor job at this and
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  I'm left wanting more about the herpes maybe
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  don't have herpes monkeys and that's how I'm
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  left feeling on this Wednesday and with that
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  I don't know you guys got 48 hours you look up
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  like these are cross species infectious Like
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  I'm just what you know, let's not end it there
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  I do have a question if these maybe the monkeys
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  did have it It just can't like jump the species
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  barrier. That was not a question That was just
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  a thought out loud. Yeah, that was a anyhow I
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  go back you guys think about that too. Goodbye