sue will eventually join the chimpanzee troupe. looking back, sergeant bloomquist says the incident is a little funny, but it could have had an entirely different outcome. if his fist or his leg would have come through there, i think at that point, something a little more serious might have happened. for police, dealing with a chimp is an unusual occurrence. but dealing with speeding cars, that s an everyday hazard. this state trooper is about to meet his hazard head-on. it s june 2005, and tennessee state trooper rodney redman is working a crash investigation. he s about to become part of another one. i heard a tire squealing on an suv and saw a gray suv coming
get a shot at the chimp. and we ll go from there. they hope to tranquilize the chimp but sue spots the police car and decides to kick play time into high gear. the dash cam inside bloomquist s car records her as she pushes a trash bin down the street. but what happens next surprises even bloomquist. so about that time is when the chimp saw us and then proceeded to jump up on the hood, started banging on the roof of the car, and i had somebody ask me, you know, what was the animal control guy doing? and i said, are you kidding me? do you really think i m watching the animal control guy s face while this chimp s going ape on my car? sue then proves to everyone she s not monkeying around. then the next thing i know, he jumps off, jumps back onto the hood and he karate kicks the windshield twice, and it breaks. after breaking the windshield, sue decides she s had enough fun and wanders off. we exited the police car. we had other officers that were arriving at that time, and we
and becoming an occupational hazard for one unfortunate cop. i m just thinking, how long s this going to go on? october 2010. suko the chimp, or sue as she s called, escapes from her owner and is making all kinds of trouble around a kansas city neighborhood. he opens up the door and he s staring. like he s a smart monkey, starts smiling and laughing, like pointing at us, ha ha. the chimpanzee comes out of nowhere and i m just thinking, get to the house. sergeant john bloomquist is on routine patrol when he gets the strange call. when i rounded the corner, there were a couple of work trucks out there. i think they were stunned. they were watching this chimp going around. neighbors record the action as the 300-pound chimp has a field day. came up, jumped up on top of
my explorer, looked through the window, got on top, started punching the sunroof. bloomquist must now figure out his next move. the last thing i want to do is shoot the chimp. i know they can be dangerous animals. they have five times the strength of a human. that point was proven in february 2009, when a chimpanzee got loose from a connecticut home and attacked the owner s friend, horribly disfiguring her. he s killing my friend! who s killing your friend? my chimp. my chimpanzee! well, i m not an expert, but to me, it did not appear that he was being aggressive. still, bloomquist knows he has to get sue under control. our job is to, you know, protect people, protect property. little does he know, the chimpanzee is nowhere near ready to call it a day. and i yelled for the animal control guy to get into my passenger side of the car, and i said, we ll zip down the street here and we ll you try and
i m just thinking, how long s this going to go on? october 2010. suko the chimp, or sue as she s called, escapes from her owner and is making all kinds of trouble around a kansas city neighborhood. he opens up the door and he s staring. like he s a smart monkey, starts smiling and laughing, like pointing at us, ha ha. the chimpanzee comes out of nowhere and i m just thinking, get to the house. sergeant john bloomquist is on routine patrol when he gets the strange call. when i rounded the corner, there were a couple of work trucks out there. i think they were stunned. they were watching this chimp going around. neighbors record the action as the 300-pound chimp has a field day. came up, jumped up on top of my explorer, looked through the window, got on top, started punching the sunroof. bloomquist must now figure out his next move. the last thing i want to do is shoot the chimp. i know they can be dangerous animals. they have five times the