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Last week, a truck carrying lab monkeys turned over, and several that survived the crash escaped. Authorities promised the public that these monkeys were not infected with transmissible diseases, such as HIV. However, reports did indicate that they were dangerous, which has since been proved to be true.

A Mississippi mom did what any rational parent would do to protect her kids, which is to shoot a rabid monkey who could potentially attack her children.

According to AP News:

Jessica Bond Ferguson said she was alerted early Sunday by her 16-year-old son who said he thought he had seen a monkey running in the yard outside their home near Heidelberg, Mississippi. She got out of bed, grabbed her firearm and her cellphone and stepped outside where she saw the monkey about 60 feet (18 meters) away.

This is not something people see every day when they go into their backyard. And it’s likely safe to conclude that the last thing this woman thought when she heard about the monkey crash was that she would have to “destroy” one of them.

Bond Ferguson said she and other residents had been warned that the escaped monkeys carried diseases so she fired her gun.

“I did what any other mother would do to protect her children,” Bond Ferguson, who has five children ranging in age from 4 to 16, told The Associated Press. “I shot at it and it just stood there, and I shot again, and he backed up and that’s when he fell.”

“If it attacked somebody’s kid, and I could have stopped it, that would be a lot on me,” said Bond Ferguson, a 35-year-old professional chef. “It’s kind of scary and dangerous that they are running around, and people have kids playing in their yards.”

It’s unclear what damage this monkey could have done had he not been killed, but as she said, she “did what any other mother would do to protect her children." Well, we can’t say she’s wrong. And at the very least, no one besides the monkeys was hurt.

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