43 monkeys escape SC research facility

Optimus Prime said
Isn’t this what happened in Planet of the Apes?
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Forty-three monkeys escaped from a compound used for medical research in South Carolina but the nearby police chief said there is “almost no danger” to the public.

“They are not infected with any disease whatsoever. They are harmless and a little skittish,” Yemassee Police Chief Gregory Alexander said Thursday morning.

The Rhesus macaque primates escaped from the Alpha Genesis facility Wednesday when a new employee didn’t fully shut an enclosure, Alexander said.

The monkeys are females weighing about 7 pounds (3 kilograms) and are so young and small that they haven’t been used for testing, police said.

Alpha Genesis employees “currently have eyes on the primates and are working to entice them with food,” police said in a statement issued around noon Thursday.……

https://apnews.com/article/66a78279a7abe57c5f8fd0953359368a

The Sy/Fy channel came out with a surprisingly good, well-acted, and intriguing TV series adaptation of the 1995 film 12 Monkeys that IMHO, was better, and more interesting than the film version in some areas particularly the crazy geneticist-turned-psychotic female version of Brad Pitt's character about 10 years ago and expanded upon the series' universe's plot, background and characters in a believable way. The series ended in a nice, fulfilling "Job Well Done" manner.

This was back when the Sci-FY Channel was actually coming out with better, intelligent, less silly and campy and convoluted series about a decade ago compared to some of the more recent drivel they've put out.