Durham police
officer, Susan Smythe, was in for a surprise when she pulled over what she
thought to be a drunk driver swerving down Madbury road with its headlights off
late Tuesday night.
Smythe began to
follow the car after it left the parking lot behind the Tin Palace on Main Street
because its’ headlights were off. Also, the car had Wyoming plates, which she had
never seen in Durham before, so she became suspicious.
She pulled the car over
on Madbury Road, got out of her vehicle and shined her flashlight as she approached
the car, only to see 3 year old chimpanzee, Oliver Twist.
“Well I looked in
the window expecting a low life drunk driver slumped over the wheel,” said
Smythe. “But I nearly fainted when I saw a chimp in the front seat grinning
back at me.”
Smythe called the
Durham zoo keeper, who answered after being woken up from his deep sleep, ready
to come to the rescue. He came in a pickup truck, with a cage in the back. He
carefully transported the very strong chimp from the car to the truck and
brought him to the Durham zoo.
The chimp has
considerably trumped the minds of the officials, thinking this sort of incident
was impossible. Completely unsure of how the chimp made in from Lander to
Cheyenne, where he stole the car then all the way to New Hampshire. It is being
investigated further as the happy chimp lays in the Durham zoo, far away from
home.
The Lexus ES 300,
the chimp was driving, was stolen from Cheyenne, Wyoming on Sunday morning. The
chimp remains in the Durham zoo as officials investigate how the chimp made it
from Wyoming to New Hampshire in just 3 days.
According to the
police Chief, Bo Diddley, the chimp escaped from a zoo in Lander, Wyoming on
Saturday morning. The chimp somehow made in 1,986 miles in just 3 days, the
mystery may never be solved.
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