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Well, why are 40 00:03:10.840 --> 00:03:14.599 we doing a bonus episode? This isn't a breaking news episode. 41 00:03:14.639 --> 00:03:20.639 This is not one of those situations where I'm something 42 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:24.080 happened that I had to But as I alluded to 43 00:03:24.319 --> 00:03:28.520 on the main episode, there was an incident here in Mississippi, 44 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:32.800 right down the road from US in Jasper County, in 45 00:03:32.919 --> 00:03:37.319 which a truck that may or may not have come 46 00:03:37.599 --> 00:03:45.560 from Two Lane University wrecked and had what may or 47 00:03:45.680 --> 00:03:51.199 may not have been diseased Reese monkeys on board. It 48 00:03:51.680 --> 00:03:55.960 was Originally one monkey escaped, now it's three monkeys escaped. 49 00:03:56.000 --> 00:03:59.759 I believe it was five killed. But the reason why 50 00:03:59.840 --> 00:04:03.560 we want to have this is my coworker, reporter Kevin 51 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:06.919 Lindsay there with me at the Laurel Leader call. He 52 00:04:07.159 --> 00:04:10.039 was on this scene when this happened. 53 00:04:10.439 --> 00:04:11.520 He was there. 54 00:04:13.479 --> 00:04:16.600 Covering the event. He can tell us a little bit 55 00:04:16.680 --> 00:04:19.839 more details. But despite being one of the one the 56 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:22.759 reporter on the scene, I think he was the only 57 00:04:23.279 --> 00:04:28.639 true reporter on the scene, he still doesn't know all 58 00:04:28.680 --> 00:04:31.680 the details. Because it seems to be nobody wants to 59 00:04:31.720 --> 00:04:35.120 take accountability and it continues to change. So I wanted 60 00:04:35.160 --> 00:04:38.399 to have Kevin on so we could talk to him 61 00:04:38.439 --> 00:04:44.439 about what he knows what's going on with the monkeys. Hey, Kevin, 62 00:04:44.680 --> 00:04:46.759 welcome to the Right Side radio show. How are you 63 00:04:46.920 --> 00:04:47.720 doing this evening? 64 00:04:48.519 --> 00:04:52.040 Pretty good man, Pretty good? Just winding down for the day. 65 00:04:52.360 --> 00:04:53.360 How's it going to you? 66 00:04:53.839 --> 00:04:56.920 Well, you know, it's the day before our deadline day, 67 00:04:57.000 --> 00:05:00.160 so as you know, those that can be hectic to 68 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:03.800 make sure we have everything done ready for tomorrow morning, 69 00:05:03.920 --> 00:05:09.079 of course, and sometimes we get thrown curveballs, even right 70 00:05:09.160 --> 00:05:13.160 there at the edge of deadline, like what happened Tuesday 71 00:05:14.120 --> 00:05:18.519 with this crazy monkey story, you know, and Kevin, we 72 00:05:18.600 --> 00:05:21.120 were all sitting around the newsroom when we first got 73 00:05:21.639 --> 00:05:25.639 word that there was a truck that e wrecked with 74 00:05:25.759 --> 00:05:29.519 monkeys on it, and we and diseased monkeys, as we 75 00:05:29.639 --> 00:05:34.000 were told at the time. None of you, myself, Guru, 76 00:05:34.439 --> 00:05:37.319 none of us thought that this was real, did we? 77 00:05:38.439 --> 00:05:39.639 No, we didn't. 78 00:05:39.800 --> 00:05:43.560 I think you saw the text first, and it was 79 00:05:43.639 --> 00:05:47.319 something about wild monkeys had escaped or been in a 80 00:05:47.399 --> 00:05:51.600 wreck and they were near the Heidelberg exit. And then 81 00:05:51.680 --> 00:05:54.480 I saw the texts and I was like, there's no 82 00:05:54.600 --> 00:05:57.439 way this is true, and it certainly was true. 83 00:05:57.920 --> 00:06:01.600 Yeah, I think it's one we saw the Jasper County 84 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:06.399 Sheriffs post. I think that's when you decided I might 85 00:06:06.480 --> 00:06:08.040 want to jump in my car and go up there 86 00:06:08.120 --> 00:06:09.680 and see if I can get a picture or two, 87 00:06:09.839 --> 00:06:12.879 because when else are you going to have an opportunity 88 00:06:12.959 --> 00:06:15.680 to take a picture of wild diseased monkeys? 89 00:06:16.600 --> 00:06:17.399 Right right? 90 00:06:17.800 --> 00:06:21.879 And do you recall what they said they were diseased with. 91 00:06:23.240 --> 00:06:29.279 Yeah, they said they were diseased with COVID hepatitis, a 92 00:06:29.480 --> 00:06:35.160 couple more things, yeah, just just crazy aggressive disease monkeys 93 00:06:35.199 --> 00:06:35.759 and herpes. 94 00:06:35.920 --> 00:06:39.759 Yeah, Herpes was definitely one of them. It just it 95 00:06:39.920 --> 00:06:43.560 blew my mind to sit here. It sounds like something 96 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:47.399 that if you read in a Hollywood script you would say, no, 97 00:06:47.680 --> 00:06:53.199 I'm not watching that movie. That sounds too ridiculous. So 98 00:06:54.040 --> 00:06:56.560 walk me through. Once you first get there, you know, 99 00:06:56.759 --> 00:06:59.120 what's what is the scene like and what what do 100 00:06:59.199 --> 00:07:02.279 you immediately see when you get to the scene of 101 00:07:02.360 --> 00:07:02.680 the wreck? 102 00:07:03.560 --> 00:07:06.240 Right, So it was just past the Heiddleburg exit, which 103 00:07:06.319 --> 00:07:10.360 is one seventeen exit, and probably about a mile and 104 00:07:10.399 --> 00:07:12.920 a half or two miles up from that exit, So 105 00:07:13.399 --> 00:07:17.360 between the Heidelberg and Glossburg exits, obviously there's a heavy 106 00:07:17.399 --> 00:07:21.199 presence of MHP Misit Coyway patrol just began of Shar's 107 00:07:21.240 --> 00:07:26.040 departments there. I think the Mississippi Department a Wildlife I 108 00:07:26.079 --> 00:07:27.639 think they were already there on the scene. 109 00:07:29.319 --> 00:07:30.680 I think m DOT was there. 110 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:33.680 Actually they were, come to think of it now, they 111 00:07:33.720 --> 00:07:36.040 were actually mowing the roads and they were having to 112 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:41.000 get the tractor stopped. But whenever I got there, I 113 00:07:41.040 --> 00:07:44.319 pulled off on the shoulder and yeah, there was a 114 00:07:44.439 --> 00:07:46.279 whole trailer. 115 00:07:46.040 --> 00:07:48.360 That was busted up. Obviously in the Median. 116 00:07:48.519 --> 00:07:52.120 In the middle of the Median, the truck had come 117 00:07:52.360 --> 00:07:55.959 off and the trailer was just sitting there, not flipped 118 00:07:55.959 --> 00:07:59.319 over anything like that. But there were crates everywhere, broken, 119 00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:03.560 some not broken, and him whenever I whenever I walked 120 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:08.360 across towards the median, I'm probably thirty thirty five yards 121 00:08:08.360 --> 00:08:12.079 away from the trailer. I look up and I see 122 00:08:12.759 --> 00:08:15.279 one of the monkeys on top of the trailer. And 123 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:17.519 as soon as I pull on my camera to take 124 00:08:17.600 --> 00:08:20.079 picture of him, he jumps inside the trailer because the 125 00:08:20.120 --> 00:08:24.279 trailer doors were open, and then he comes out, kind 126 00:08:24.279 --> 00:08:27.319 of eases out, and I took some pictures of him. 127 00:08:27.399 --> 00:08:30.040 He was sitting on the crate, and then I guess 128 00:08:30.120 --> 00:08:33.480 he heard the shutter firing on my camera and just 129 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:36.559 start staring at me and my self in the deputy 130 00:08:36.679 --> 00:08:38.639 or there, just kind of taking it all in. 131 00:08:39.519 --> 00:08:41.919 But so so he gave you a death stare, I think, 132 00:08:42.039 --> 00:08:43.720 is how you described it when you got back to 133 00:08:43.840 --> 00:08:49.080 the office. You know this, Did the monkeys what they 134 00:08:49.120 --> 00:08:52.600 didn't seem aggressive to you? Why you were observing them? 135 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:55.480 Did they No, No, they weren't. I don't know if 136 00:08:55.519 --> 00:08:55.840 they were. 137 00:08:55.919 --> 00:08:57.840 You know, obviously there's still a lot of questions, and 138 00:08:57.919 --> 00:09:01.200 I'm sure we'll talk about that, but they didn't seem aggressive. 139 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:04.279 Actually talked with a couple of deputies and said. 140 00:09:04.080 --> 00:09:05.320 They were more curious. 141 00:09:05.480 --> 00:09:09.720 As obviously as Missi Cowai patrol and law enforcement got there, 142 00:09:10.200 --> 00:09:12.879 some of them kind of walked towards their cars, but not. 143 00:09:12.919 --> 00:09:14.960 In an aggressive manner or anything like that. 144 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:18.639 Uh, they were mainly I think shook up, and obviously 145 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:20.519 we don't know if they were drugged or you know, 146 00:09:21.159 --> 00:09:23.519 anything like that. But yeah, they were just kind of 147 00:09:23.559 --> 00:09:25.519 hanging out, and I think as they were kind of 148 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:28.279 getting their wits back about them and things like that, 149 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:31.879 they started wandering off a little bit from the accident site. 150 00:09:32.639 --> 00:09:35.519 Did they did the monkey seem injured after the wreck 151 00:09:35.600 --> 00:09:37.679 or was there there anything that made you think they 152 00:09:37.759 --> 00:09:38.480 might have been hurt? 153 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:42.919 I one looked hurt. I really can't tell. I know 154 00:09:43.080 --> 00:09:45.440 in some of my photos he did look injured. One 155 00:09:45.480 --> 00:09:47.879 of them did h Mostly I think they had just 156 00:09:47.960 --> 00:09:51.519 been shook up, obviously going through and bouncing around in 157 00:09:51.600 --> 00:09:52.840 the media and things like that. 158 00:09:53.879 --> 00:09:55.960 Was the driver of the truck, was he willing to 159 00:09:56.080 --> 00:09:57.879 talk to you or were you able to get any 160 00:09:58.080 --> 00:09:58.919 anything out. 161 00:09:58.759 --> 00:09:59.279 Of the driver? 162 00:09:59.799 --> 00:10:02.879 Now, neither the driver or the co driver really talked 163 00:10:04.039 --> 00:10:06.399 throughout the whole thing. While I was there, they were 164 00:10:06.440 --> 00:10:09.559 talking to highway patrol and things like that, I guess, 165 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:13.519 telling them what had happened. But obviously you know this 166 00:10:13.799 --> 00:10:17.440 that highway trol said the crash was still under investigate you. 167 00:10:17.840 --> 00:10:20.320 Oh, yeah, they'll probably say that for three months now. 168 00:10:20.519 --> 00:10:26.320 So right right, very very helpful organization, I'll be so. 169 00:10:27.519 --> 00:10:33.399 Uh But Kevin, tell us some of the first reports 170 00:10:33.480 --> 00:10:35.600 you were getting, you know, as you got out there, 171 00:10:35.639 --> 00:10:38.039 as you were driving there, tell us some of the 172 00:10:38.159 --> 00:10:41.559 things that you were getting, you know, maybe from the 173 00:10:41.639 --> 00:10:45.879 Sheriff's department or anything you were getting on the scene 174 00:10:47.200 --> 00:10:49.200 once you once you arrived from someone. 175 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:53.440 Yes, so whenever I got there and took pictures is 176 00:10:53.879 --> 00:10:56.120 in also Hierberg Police department. 177 00:10:56.240 --> 00:10:58.399 That was one of the one of the people that 178 00:10:58.480 --> 00:10:58.919 I talked to. 179 00:10:59.639 --> 00:11:01.440 Uh, they were talking about they were trying to get 180 00:11:01.440 --> 00:11:04.120 a count on the monkeys and things like that. And 181 00:11:04.200 --> 00:11:07.799 as we're standing there and obviously a few of the 182 00:11:07.879 --> 00:11:10.440 monkeys had to be put down because they were leaving 183 00:11:11.120 --> 00:11:14.360 the crash site. And what I understood just kind of 184 00:11:14.480 --> 00:11:19.600 hearing the wildlife people talking to who I think was 185 00:11:19.679 --> 00:11:20.799 Tulane University. 186 00:11:21.799 --> 00:11:25.639 They were saying if the monkeys get loose away. 187 00:11:25.399 --> 00:11:28.960 From the crash site, to eliminate them and put them 188 00:11:29.039 --> 00:11:31.080 down basically, and that's what they had to do. They 189 00:11:31.159 --> 00:11:34.759 put several of them down. I think they ended up 190 00:11:34.799 --> 00:11:38.159 putting five down. Obviously we had to back. 191 00:11:38.039 --> 00:11:39.519 Away from there. 192 00:11:39.600 --> 00:11:43.840 They shut traffic down both ways things like that and 193 00:11:44.000 --> 00:11:46.159 made it safe for everyone, and I backed off of it, 194 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:49.600 of course, but they put I think five down. And 195 00:11:49.720 --> 00:11:53.960 at that point we heard that one monkey had crossed 196 00:11:54.080 --> 00:11:57.759 the road the interstate and was actually close to where 197 00:11:57.799 --> 00:12:01.519 my car was parked. As we're sitting there, one of 198 00:12:01.559 --> 00:12:03.320 the deppies is like, I think I just saw a 199 00:12:03.399 --> 00:12:06.000 monkey go like down close. 200 00:12:05.759 --> 00:12:08.200 To where your car was at. Uh. So that was 201 00:12:08.279 --> 00:12:09.080 kind of interesting. 202 00:12:10.080 --> 00:12:13.200 But at the time, we were just hearing that they 203 00:12:13.240 --> 00:12:17.759 were aggressive and that they were going to Florida, which 204 00:12:17.840 --> 00:12:21.279 we I don't know where that rumor started, and then 205 00:12:21.360 --> 00:12:23.519 of course that they were diseased with all. 206 00:12:23.440 --> 00:12:27.080 Kinds of stuff, So a lot of conflicting reports. 207 00:12:27.120 --> 00:12:27.759 I know y'all were. 208 00:12:27.720 --> 00:12:30.159 Getting stuff in as I was on the scene too, 209 00:12:30.679 --> 00:12:33.200 but there was just a lot of confusion, I felt like. 210 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:34.840 And they's still confusion. 211 00:12:35.399 --> 00:12:35.519 Uh. 212 00:12:35.639 --> 00:12:39.639 And before we get to that confusion, you told us 213 00:12:40.399 --> 00:12:45.200 a story about when once they started shooting the monkeys 214 00:12:45.279 --> 00:12:48.639 to try to prevent them from going away. You you 215 00:12:48.759 --> 00:12:54.200 told us that one had a very peculiar response to 216 00:12:54.320 --> 00:12:55.480 being shot. 217 00:12:56.360 --> 00:12:56.559 Yeah. 218 00:12:57.039 --> 00:12:58.480 Do you mind walking us through that? 219 00:12:59.399 --> 00:13:03.480 Yeah. So I'm standing behind the deputy, well behind a deputy, and. 220 00:13:05.120 --> 00:13:08.679 He fires off. He's obviously using an ar and from 221 00:13:08.720 --> 00:13:10.159 what I understand was the hallow point. 222 00:13:10.960 --> 00:13:11.120 Uh. 223 00:13:11.399 --> 00:13:14.240 He shoots the monkey, which they were pretty large, like 224 00:13:14.320 --> 00:13:16.639 there were some that were smaller, but there was pretty 225 00:13:16.720 --> 00:13:20.519 large monkeys there too, And he shoots one and it 226 00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:23.960 just turns around and stares at us. And I get 227 00:13:24.039 --> 00:13:27.480 behind a vehicle because we don't know how they're going 228 00:13:27.559 --> 00:13:30.360 to react. And I was blown away, and I think 229 00:13:30.440 --> 00:13:34.200 the deputy was too, that he shoots a monkey with 230 00:13:34.320 --> 00:13:37.480 an ar uh and the monkey just turns around. 231 00:13:37.600 --> 00:13:38.240 He had to shoot the. 232 00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:40.799 Monkey multiple times, and they did with all with pretty 233 00:13:40.840 --> 00:13:43.080 much all of them, I believe, had to had to 234 00:13:43.080 --> 00:13:46.840 shoot them multiple times because they were just I don't know, 235 00:13:47.360 --> 00:13:50.799 I really don't know the structure of a monkey, but 236 00:13:51.399 --> 00:13:52.559 apparently they were tough. 237 00:13:52.600 --> 00:13:53.480 They're tough animals. 238 00:13:54.480 --> 00:13:57.559 It is obvious that they were from from what she 239 00:13:57.639 --> 00:14:00.559 because I remember our reaction when you told us story 240 00:14:00.600 --> 00:14:02.559 in the office, where like, yeah, that that would have 241 00:14:02.639 --> 00:14:06.120 been about the time I got ready to leave. I 242 00:14:06.240 --> 00:14:10.759 see somebody get shot with a hollow point ak round 243 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:15.000 and it doesn't phase them. Yeah, now I'm tapping out 244 00:14:15.080 --> 00:14:20.159 on that one. So and again, it's anytime there's a 245 00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:22.600 loss of life of an animal or anything like that. 246 00:14:22.679 --> 00:14:25.919 We're not making fun of that, we're not relishing that 247 00:14:26.120 --> 00:14:29.039 in any way, but we're just trying to recount what 248 00:14:29.240 --> 00:14:33.320 actually happened. One of the things to Kevin that I 249 00:14:33.480 --> 00:14:36.240 know you saw and I saw there were a lot 250 00:14:36.480 --> 00:14:41.799 of Facebook keyboard warriors who were quick to be critical 251 00:14:42.000 --> 00:14:45.320 of law enforcement officers, you know, saying things like why 252 00:14:45.399 --> 00:14:48.440 didn't you just shoot them with a tranquilizer gun and 253 00:14:49.159 --> 00:14:51.399 you and I know the simple answer to that, they're 254 00:14:51.480 --> 00:14:54.879 not equipped with that stuff. And yeah, you know when 255 00:14:54.919 --> 00:14:58.440 you're faced with the option of because again at this 256 00:14:58.639 --> 00:15:04.279 point there does zazed hyperly aggressive to human monkeys, is 257 00:15:04.399 --> 00:15:08.200 the story. So you're left with an option of put 258 00:15:08.279 --> 00:15:11.399 them down or let them get in the community and 259 00:15:11.519 --> 00:15:16.960 possibly in fact or worse harm or kill someone. You 260 00:15:17.080 --> 00:15:20.120 really pretty much the only option that they had was 261 00:15:20.759 --> 00:15:26.720 the lethal option that they chose Kevin, did I lose you. 262 00:15:26.799 --> 00:15:29.039 By Yeah, that's that's the that's the truth, and that's 263 00:15:29.080 --> 00:15:30.519 what I will. 264 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:32.679 Hell, yeah, you're still here. 265 00:15:34.919 --> 00:15:36.519 I think we think there you go. 266 00:15:36.840 --> 00:15:41.200 I mean, obviously I think that, Yeah. I think that's 267 00:15:41.240 --> 00:15:44.919 the biggest thing that I've I've told people is the 268 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:45.440 fact that. 269 00:15:47.399 --> 00:15:48.200 You know, there's there. 270 00:15:48.399 --> 00:15:51.120 You don't have twenty tranquilizer darts or how or many 271 00:15:51.600 --> 00:15:56.120 a dozen tranquilizer darts on hand, and honestly, Jasper County 272 00:15:56.279 --> 00:16:00.440 and Jonalds County neither one or quilled for that. I mean, 273 00:16:00.519 --> 00:16:03.759 you don't know what to prescribe to a monkey. 274 00:16:04.799 --> 00:16:04.960 You know. 275 00:16:05.039 --> 00:16:08.080 Obviously, we deal with cattle and horses around here, so 276 00:16:08.679 --> 00:16:11.320 you know, if you give an animal too much, you 277 00:16:11.399 --> 00:16:14.440 could you could kill them too. And uh, you know, 278 00:16:14.720 --> 00:16:20.000 obviously with them being aggressive and diseased, what we thought 279 00:16:20.720 --> 00:16:23.399 initially they were just trying to trying to make sure 280 00:16:23.440 --> 00:16:26.679 that nothing tragic happened to people or anyone else. 281 00:16:27.639 --> 00:16:33.879 Now, of course, the next day we see a statement 282 00:16:33.960 --> 00:16:39.279 from Tulane. We also get reports that it was not 283 00:16:39.480 --> 00:16:44.320 one monkey that escaped, but three monkeys that escaped. You know, 284 00:16:44.440 --> 00:16:48.720 first Kevin tell us about the first statement from TWU Lane, 285 00:16:48.919 --> 00:16:51.279 and then you can kind of tell us about how 286 00:16:51.399 --> 00:16:55.759 did they mistakenly think it was just one monkey that escaped. 287 00:16:56.960 --> 00:16:59.919 Yeah, that's I think where the confusion really has start. 288 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:04.039 And two Lane releases a statement saying that it's not 289 00:17:04.200 --> 00:17:08.279 their monkeys, it's you know, they're not infected, they're not diseased, 290 00:17:08.480 --> 00:17:12.799 anything like that, and it just kind of goes on 291 00:17:13.160 --> 00:17:17.519 and then they deflect to the Mississippi Highway Patrol and 292 00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:22.480 Jasperganny Sheriff's apartment, and then they were supposed to come 293 00:17:22.559 --> 00:17:24.640 get the monkeys the next day, so it would have 294 00:17:24.680 --> 00:17:29.119 been Wednesday. And then you've got wildlife fishing Game and 295 00:17:30.160 --> 00:17:33.799 Mission Highway Patrol and Jaffa Granna Shaff's apartment saying, you know, 296 00:17:33.880 --> 00:17:37.160 we don't have anywhere to house these monkeys. Their trailers broke, 297 00:17:37.319 --> 00:17:40.599 crates are broken. We need someone that knows what they're 298 00:17:40.680 --> 00:17:44.799 doing and how to handle these things up here now. 299 00:17:45.200 --> 00:17:48.119 So they make their way. Two Lane does. 300 00:17:49.920 --> 00:17:53.799 Around i'must assuming seven o'clock, six o'clock, seven o'clock somewhere 301 00:17:53.799 --> 00:17:56.920 along than there, and we find out that not one 302 00:17:57.000 --> 00:17:59.119 monkey's escaped, but three monkeys have escaped. 303 00:18:00.119 --> 00:18:02.640 And then it goes on to. 304 00:18:04.440 --> 00:18:09.119 Basically Jasper Counties referring back to Highway Patrol, Highway Patrols 305 00:18:09.200 --> 00:18:09.839 referring back. 306 00:18:09.759 --> 00:18:10.319 To tu Lane. 307 00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:14.240 Tu Lane's referring to Mississippi Wildlife. I mean, it's just 308 00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:17.559 back and forth, and honestly, I think it starts with 309 00:18:17.720 --> 00:18:19.440 TU Lane. I don't I don't want to throw the 310 00:18:19.480 --> 00:18:22.559 Sheriff's department under the bus or anyone else, because ultimately 311 00:18:22.640 --> 00:18:26.039 I think it starts with Tu Lane because now they're 312 00:18:26.839 --> 00:18:30.720 not wanting to be not referring to the Sheriff's Department. 313 00:18:30.839 --> 00:18:35.920 They're referring to wildlife fishing game in MHP as of today. 314 00:18:36.359 --> 00:18:39.200 So it's just kind of strange. They haven't said we're 315 00:18:39.240 --> 00:18:43.359 the they were taking the monkeys. They just I've heard 316 00:18:43.440 --> 00:18:46.640 Maryland from the Jasper County Sheriff's Department. 317 00:18:47.039 --> 00:18:50.039 I heard that some of the monkeys who were. 318 00:18:50.000 --> 00:18:52.799 Alive and were actually in cages at the rec scene 319 00:18:54.119 --> 00:18:58.119 that they were going back to Louisiana. So just a 320 00:18:58.160 --> 00:19:01.240 lot of confusion, and it's it's me amplified, I feel 321 00:19:01.359 --> 00:19:02.880 like by the university. 322 00:19:03.119 --> 00:19:03.279 You know. 323 00:19:03.440 --> 00:19:06.880 And that's the other thing too, because you alluded to it. 324 00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:12.880 TWU Lane released a third statement today, again deflect deflect, deflect, 325 00:19:12.920 --> 00:19:14.599 I think is the way how I described it when 326 00:19:14.680 --> 00:19:20.400 I read it. There's the biggest question I have is, Okay, 327 00:19:20.440 --> 00:19:25.480 they're not tu Lane University's monkeys. That's what they tell us. 328 00:19:26.279 --> 00:19:28.119 But then they go on to tell us that the 329 00:19:28.200 --> 00:19:31.599 monkeys are not diseased, they're not your monkeys. 330 00:19:31.640 --> 00:19:32.319 How do you know that? 331 00:19:33.400 --> 00:19:36.559 And then another question I have, Kevin, and I know 332 00:19:36.680 --> 00:19:38.400 you don't have the answers, but I want to talk 333 00:19:38.440 --> 00:19:40.920 about it with you. The other question I have is 334 00:19:41.319 --> 00:19:46.519 the officials from Tulane arrived to this scene and has 335 00:19:46.640 --> 00:19:47.319 mad suits. 336 00:19:48.240 --> 00:19:52.599 Yeah, if they're not diseased, why are you aware of those? Yeah? 337 00:19:52.839 --> 00:19:56.039 I don't understand that we're saying they're not diseased. Yet 338 00:19:56.079 --> 00:20:00.759 there's pictures of them in face shields and everything else 339 00:20:00.920 --> 00:20:04.559 coming down here setting out live traps for the monkeys. 340 00:20:05.160 --> 00:20:09.680 And that's something that you know, everybody's got these questions 341 00:20:09.720 --> 00:20:13.319 and they're wanting answers, and no one is wanting to 342 00:20:13.400 --> 00:20:15.799 give straightforward answers in my opinion. 343 00:20:15.920 --> 00:20:19.599 And that's what I'm seeing. And as a reporter, you 344 00:20:19.720 --> 00:20:22.000 know you have an obligation to the community to get 345 00:20:22.039 --> 00:20:27.920 them the best, most accurate information possible. How frustrating has 346 00:20:28.079 --> 00:20:33.440 this entire ordeal been since the initial call to go 347 00:20:33.559 --> 00:20:37.400 out to the interstate to the crash scene. How frustrating 348 00:20:37.440 --> 00:20:40.680 has it been just trying to get a kernel of truth. 349 00:20:41.799 --> 00:20:42.960 Yeah, it's very frustrating. 350 00:20:43.039 --> 00:20:47.240 It's frustrating for one because, and I'll say this, the 351 00:20:47.279 --> 00:20:51.039 Mississippi Highway Patrol they tout their chest on that they. 352 00:20:51.079 --> 00:20:53.319 Handle all recks. And you know this just as well 353 00:20:53.359 --> 00:20:53.680 as I do. 354 00:20:54.240 --> 00:20:57.200 They handle all res on the interstate and highway. They 355 00:20:57.400 --> 00:21:02.200 overrule our sheriff's departments or city police, and they do 356 00:21:02.359 --> 00:21:03.559 not say anything about it. 357 00:21:03.759 --> 00:21:04.440 We're handling it. 358 00:21:05.160 --> 00:21:08.279 Yet we both got the press release that they're not 359 00:21:08.480 --> 00:21:12.359 having any comment regarding the crash. Well, there was only 360 00:21:12.519 --> 00:21:17.039 one truck with a driver and co driver. What happened 361 00:21:17.079 --> 00:21:20.960 to cause the truck to crash, we don't know, and 362 00:21:21.079 --> 00:21:25.480 they won't comment on it. We heard a rumor today 363 00:21:25.680 --> 00:21:29.680 that the driver fell asleep, but it's one o'clock in 364 00:21:29.759 --> 00:21:33.640 the afternoon, and every co driver of the truck. But 365 00:21:33.880 --> 00:21:36.680 that's again, that's not from the MHP. That's just a 366 00:21:36.799 --> 00:21:37.680 rumor that we heard. 367 00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:41.440 Yeah, and there's no telling where that initially came from. So, 368 00:21:41.519 --> 00:21:46.200 I mean, you can't go to print with a rumors. 369 00:21:46.680 --> 00:21:49.599 It's beyond because I mean, again, this story has made 370 00:21:49.720 --> 00:21:53.960 national news. This is not a story that's just confined 371 00:21:54.160 --> 00:21:57.799 to our area now, and yet nobody's getting any real facts. 372 00:21:58.880 --> 00:22:02.759 Yeah, it's very frustrating, and you know, I understand with 373 00:22:02.880 --> 00:22:07.240 miss Wildlife and Game. The day of it happened, the 374 00:22:07.319 --> 00:22:09.240 guy who was kind of heading up things, he was 375 00:22:09.279 --> 00:22:10.359 getting pulled everywhere. 376 00:22:10.400 --> 00:22:12.480 He was trying to contact Tulane. 377 00:22:12.640 --> 00:22:15.000 He's trying to talk, you know, with Missy Piway patrolled 378 00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:18.799 about the accident, so he really couldn't give much information. 379 00:22:20.039 --> 00:22:23.519 But at some point someone has to give information. We 380 00:22:23.559 --> 00:22:27.279 don't even know where the monkeys were going to, you know, 381 00:22:27.400 --> 00:22:31.279 we were told by the Jaspergann Sheriff's Department Department, Maryland, 382 00:22:31.839 --> 00:22:36.559 but the hag on the trailer had made and then 383 00:22:36.799 --> 00:22:39.200 we don't know where the monkeys were actually going to. 384 00:22:39.400 --> 00:22:43.359 And there's been no one say that these monkeys were 385 00:22:43.440 --> 00:22:48.559 going to a university or a zoo or anything like that. 386 00:22:49.799 --> 00:22:52.240 Tulane has just said that they weren't theirs and they 387 00:22:52.279 --> 00:22:53.160 were someone else's. 388 00:22:53.519 --> 00:22:57.799 Yeah, essentially, nobody's even claimed these monkeys. So we don't 389 00:22:57.839 --> 00:23:02.079 even know one hundred percent, assuming Tulane's telling the truth. 390 00:23:02.720 --> 00:23:06.400 We don't know who owned these monkeys to begin with. 391 00:23:07.000 --> 00:23:11.000 We don't know how Tulane's name came associated with the 392 00:23:11.079 --> 00:23:13.960 monkey or do you know how Tulane's name came associated 393 00:23:14.039 --> 00:23:14.680 with the monkeys? 394 00:23:15.680 --> 00:23:15.839 Right? 395 00:23:15.960 --> 00:23:20.240 The only thing that I know is that the Sheriff's 396 00:23:20.240 --> 00:23:23.440 department said that the monkeys came from Tulane University. 397 00:23:23.880 --> 00:23:25.200 That's the only thing that we know. 398 00:23:25.680 --> 00:23:27.240 Yes, so we don't even know if they got that 399 00:23:27.359 --> 00:23:32.839 from the driver or where that came from. It seems 400 00:23:32.960 --> 00:23:38.000 very suspect to me. And again the fact that Tulane 401 00:23:38.240 --> 00:23:43.720