Has the article been edited since being posted here? Because it doesn’t mention any of those diseases, and actually says the monkeys weren’t infectious.
Yup. When I read the article a few hours ago, it was a lot scarier than it is now.
Everybody makes occasional mistakes, but the journalistic norm is to append a correction, which isn’t here. Something like, “An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported that the escaped monkeys would kill you and your family. WLBT regrets the error.”
It’s probably because it’s all AI generated bullshit. There is no real journalism anymore.
Yes it’s kinda crazy they completely changed the article and there’s no indication that they changed it
Clickbait and switch.
They were not infected with anything, and they posed no threat to humans. That was all just something claimed by an inbred hick sheriff, who was looking for an excuse to use his military equipment to kill monkeys.
The source the sheriff’s office used is the truck driver.
The university said they do have some monkeys that are infectious, but none were on this semi trailer.
Sheriff’s office didn’t think maybe they should corroborate the truck driver’s story before telling the news there was aggressive infectious monkeys running around.
“That driver there? That’s ol’ Hank. We told ‘em them monkeys had 5G COVID on the account of so he won’t try to have his way with one of ‘em. This is Mississippi after all…”
Low-key curious how said monkey is the driver’s sister.
I would definitely bet the driver didn’t say anything like that and the cops just called in whatever they thought they needed to say to get to shoot monkeys.
I didn’t expect the 28 days series to be what turned out to be a documentary but I’m also not surprised
I hear that they prefer to be called MAGA, not monkeys.
Did the Epstein files escape too?
Quick someone call Dustin Hoffman!
I actually had this one on my bingo card.
Mine implied that the truck made it further along toward its destination, but yeah: samesies
Hope the monkeys stay safe from the native Mississippians
Sadly, unlikely, as the monkeys are wildly unable to, in such an alien environment, identify banjo strumming from other less-foreboding native wildlife sounds.
Nothing to see here… Just the GOP terrorists getting ahead of the next big thing they helped cause.
jfc
Now that’s a headline that isn’t clickbait, it fucking click kidnapped me
If you go back and re-read the article, you’ll find it’s been edited, and now has no mention of any diseases and says the monkeys weren’t infectious. So I think it was clickbait, after all.
That’s how they get ya
That’s just what the corpos over at Big Rhesus Monkey wants you to think.
Except that it did turn out to be lying clickbait.
Damn. I’m taking stock of everything we’ve lost in the headline:
- no reference to “slammed,” “burned,” or other intense attack words
- accurate summary of the situation
- nothing overstated
- no key details left out
- isn’t a listicle
- nothing inviting the reader to see more by promising the rest of the headline in the article, none of that saved-you-a-click shit
My god, this might actually be good honest journalism!
They forgot hepatitis
It was in the article. Emphasis on was since the entire article has been changed since I posted
Not real.
They changed to article. Edited out all references to diseases.
So crappy journalism.
Edit Apparently a lo of people have mentioned this here. I simply didn’t read far enough.
They changed to article. Edited out all references to diseases.
So crappy journalism.
I’m starting to think that link aggregators like the Threadiverse software and Reddit should keep a log of headlines, or at least headlines that they see, because it’s a real issue for discussion on those sites. Like, maybe check and update at a geometrically-increasing interval (at submission time, after 1 hour, after 2 hours, after 4 hours, after 8 hours, etc).
“diseased monkeys pan careless driver”
According to authorities, the Rhesus monkeys were on their way to a testing facility in Florida
“Florida Man’s Outbreak Monkeys on the Rampage in Mississippi”
The university says that if the monkeys leave the wreck site, they must be shot.
The only counter to a troop of aggressive monkeys carrying diseases dangerous to humans is a bunch of Mississippians running around with firearms who have been waiting for this very moment all their lives.
a troop of aggressive monkeys carrying diseases dangerous to humans
a bunch of Mississippians running around with firearms who have been waiting for this very moment
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Oh I remember watching Outbreak, great movie.
I’m now imagining RFK, Jr. managing a major national health disaster.
He is…
“Managing” is being a bit generous.
Not implying he’s managing well. :-)
Hell, he created it
RFK: I vow to hunt down and eat that monkey.
I’d make a joke about the coming zombie apocalypse but I’ve given up hope of ever not going to work tomorrow.
Your employer would give you a day off for zombie apocalypse? Most of us would have to take a sick day and bring a doctor’s note.
Is your employer your elementary school teacher by any chance?
I do not understand how Americans just bend over and take this every day, pretending they have no power to do anything about it.
