What the...?

So this morning as i was getting ready for work I watched the Today show as always. This morning they shared this story.

My honest reaction was WTF?!? Where to start?

They raised the chimp since he was 3 days old. - Where do you get a 3 day old chimp? What posses you to think, "THIS is the perfect pet for me."?

Poor chimpy gets Lyme disease. - Don't they have Adventex for chimps? No? Oh, right because CHIMPS AREN'T NATIVE TO THE US WHERE TICKS LIVE.

Chimpy is having a bad day so his owners give him Xanax Tea. - Again - WTF? Where'd she get the Xanax? Was it a prescription for the chimp? Why give it to him in a tea? Why is a chimp drinking tea? My brain is ready to explode.

Chimpy goes apey (ha!) the owner gos after him with a Butcher knife and a shovel when the stabbing doesn't work. - So, if you raised an animal from 3 days old how grizzled do you have to be to repeatedly stab your pet? Seriously this disturbs me.

Stabbed chimp runs away, opens a cop car door, and attacks the cop. The cop "has no choice but to shoot the chimp several times." - One bullet can't put this repeatedly stabbed and beaten chimp down? Is this super chimp? Can he leap over buildings and save caged zoo animals? If a cop shot a human "several times" he'd be brought up on charges - even if the human were a convicted baby killer.

The cop being interviewed said that the department recently attained tasers that could have stopped the chimp. But, these tasers couldn't be deployed to the scene in time. - What kind of police department purchases tasers and then leaves them at the department to be deployed when needed? Shouldn't you carry those with you?

We, as a society, have some serious issues. I'm just saying.