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Authorities are investigating after a pair of lemurs got loose and one of them scratched a little girl in North Miami Beach early Monday.
North Miami Beach Police say they received a call around 2 a.m. of two monkeys attacking a girl in the area of Northeast 172nd Street and 20th Avenue.
The 2-year-old girl had been getting out of a car with her mother when she was scratched in the face by one of the lemurs, police said.
"I have never in my 17 years," said North Miami Beach Police Sgt. Richard Rand. "This is the first time I've ever been dispatched to a call like this."
Officers were able to capture one of the lemurs after it jumped on top of a police car. The owner was able to catch the other lemur.
The girl was treated by fire rescue workers at the scene and wasn't hospitalized.
"Fire-Rescue treated her immediately, she appeared to be in good spirits," Rand added.
The owner of lemurs, Julia Hincapie, who keeps them in cage in his backyard, said someone broke in and that's how they got loose. He added that he has a permit for the lemurs.
"They were just, they were scared, that's it, they were running around, everyone was chasing them, a lot of lights, they were scared," Hincapie said.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission was at the scene investigating.
"We have called out FWC who is gonna come out and make sure that he is licensed, inspect the cages to make sure that their integrity hasn't been compromised because of a possible attempted burglary," Rand said. "Our main concern right now is to make sure that the neighborhood is kept safe."
Some neighbors said they don't mind the unusual house pets.
"There's nothing wrong with the monkeys, they're very peaceful, we feed them and everything," said neighbor Carlos Lezcano. "Like any other animals around, we got raccoons, we got cats, we got every kind of animals around here, which is beautiful."
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Ban Lemurs!!!
When lemurs are outlawed, only outlaws will have lemurs.
They like to Move It! Move it!
Lemurs must remain locked when not in use. You'd think burglars would have more courtesy.
Geeez! Even the animals are going nuts in Florida!
My leming once got loose. Everybody had a good time, and he went back to bed when he was finished.
Spank the monkey!
Weather acting weird, pets acting weird, Sun acting weird, politicians acting weird. I think its time that the government really tell us whats going on.
Lions and tigers and Lemurs....oh my!
Monterey Jim, I was thinking the same thing "THE SKY IS FALLING THE SKY IS FALLING!" Everything has to be sensationalized these days. Probably dozens of people were scratched by squirrels the same day--WHERE WERE THE REPORTERS?! I demand full coverage of all animal scratches! Actually, I was bitten by a baby squirrel once--can I be on NBC News?
I lol'd at the gun jokes. But seriously, if big bad Homo sapiens can't deal with a little primate on primate action, they should stay inside. Lemurs don't hurt people; little girls do.
They scratched her, not attack her, you idiots! Check the girl if she gave them rabies.
The only thing sensationalized is your comments.
Ban idiots!
Chris from Yucaipa
Do you do anything other than snipe other people's comments? Haven't seen you actually post anything without referring to someone else's first. Are you trolling or what? Just wondering.
@JS69
Have you ever been to Yucaipa? If you had, you'd understand Chris!
Life confined in a cage is no life for a wild animal! Let wild animals remain wild in the wilderness where they belong.
On a side note, why are you out at 2 a.m. with your two year old child?
@Monterey Jim and woodrat - I was thinking the same thing about the "attack!" I'm surprised they didn't report that the lemur was packing an assault rifle!
On a personal note, I was "attacked" my my neighbor's puppies yesterday. I was savagely slurped in the face and wantonly wiggle-butted on! I could have died (of laughter).
I guess your attention span isn't capable of skimming more than 2-3 of my posting history. I might be wrong and you might be nothing than a fanboy for Jim Spence and taking exception to my pointing out the ignorance of his racist comments.
Technically every comment posting on a thread, other than the very first one, IS a reply. And are you saying that I'm not supposed to use the quote option that Newsvine has provided us?
JS69
I guess that's a no then.
By the way JS69, if you want to make the claim that I'm doing nothing but sniping, it would have probably been better if your own posting history didn't make you look like a hypocrite.
People forget that Lemurs are very strong compared to humans.....have you ever smelled one?
Ban Florida !!!
Warren,
We aren't all entirely against secession down here.....lol.
I propose a North and South Florida though.....can't relate to the southern Floridians. Probably because they are all from Michigan or Cuba.
Hell, the lemurs are probably from Michigan or Cuba too!
You forgot New York and the friggin French Canadian snow birds every damn winter. I propose a three way split, North Florida, South Florida and Miami Dade county, north and south can split central at say Melbourne, everything north of Melbourne goes to the north, Melbourne and everything south goes to the south, the lake is common territory. We build a 20 foot high reinforced concrete wall with an electric razor wire fence on top around Dade.
Uhhh ... excuse me ... how about Northern and Southern CA, we wanna secede/split/whatever.
Sorry Lugdush, but East and West California makes more sense. West Ca. can have the coastal counties except San Diego, and East California can have the inland counties and San Diego. Divided politically and culturally!
Damn mexicans are EVERYWHERE in CA. N & S split is better, they wan it they can have it, Southern CA to I-80, the rest belongs to us Gringos They can also keep their SEESTERs down there too, the freakin donkeys already stretched them out too far, hell you can put a whole 6 pak of tacos in them now
wassamatta warrren - no racist remarks tonight???
Free the lemurs in the everglades.
Antistupidity,
'We build a 20 foot high reinforced concrete wall with an electric razor wire fence on top around Dade.'
How's about just the fence around Dade county and no split. That would ensure that all the naked face eating zombies can't get out too....I'm game for that...though I do like the sharing of Lake George if the split still occurs.
Gotta leave the keys in one of our states though. Sure, collectively, they are a bit off down there but they know how to have fun, the cubans are friendly, serve the best coffee and cuban mixes that I've ever had and nobody eats peoples faces off in the street so...we need at least one bent fork in the silverware drawer.
Chefaz,
Stay on those racists. Racists suck!!!!! we hates the nasty little racististsss....hates em forevaaaaa
Troy1101
Agreed, we have a deal, although I wasn't talking about Lake George, but I think you already know that. You think we can cut Dade county loose and just have a big bay loaded with reefs and dive venues.
I see even the lemurs are crazy in Florida, no assault rifles for lemurs!!!
lol. Because it's a "beautiful" thing to cage a couple of lemurs up in your back yard right?....freakin' hippies.
Mitt Romney is exactly where he should be....at HIS inauguration, HIS presidential luncheon, and at HIS parade.
He's where he fits in....with the 1% in one of his homes in sunny California.
Let's face it folks, Mitt Romney was not presidential material. And his son confirmed that that's what Mitt believed when he said he really didn't want the job to begin with. The Republicans were willing to back a loser in hopes they would be winners. What does that say about our Republican representatives when they're willing to nominate someone who doesn't even want the job? It speaks volumes to me!
I'm confused Dachs.....is Mitt Romney a lemur or did he let them go...lol.
wrong thread dude!
Dachs, ahh,,hmm,,What are you talking about?
dachs - youve got some serious issues!
Grow up! Does every article have to be made political on these pages??
Dachs,
Drugs are bad for you just in case you didn't know that.
BTW...Mitt losed the election and that's why he was at his home in sunny California.
Some libs are so stupid they end up in the wrong threads.
Huh? What does that have to do with ANYthing, Dachs?
Raccoons ,Cats ,Monkeys ,Lemurs ,Lizards .Where are the damn Pythons when we need them !!!
the pythons are out in the everglades eating the alligators....when they get done there, they'll be "worming" their way to everybody's house :)
Yeah! Thanks for the laugh, strega!
Not sure most would try it but we tried some deep fried Burmese python with a pineapple barbecue sauce while in Florida in September and it was fantastic. If they are as common as is portrayed in the media there could be a whole lot of good eating going on soon.
They have haitians too
you mean the pythons are eating the Haitians too? or the Haitians are good with pineapple bbq sauce?
what was the child doing out @ 2:00 am?
maybe they were on a roadtrip and just got home?
Maybe she got sick during a sleepover?
Just getting in, the bars close at 2am
Trying out her new Lemur call.
"Hey Leeeeeee-muuuuuurrr!..."
You're doing it wrong. It goes like this:
Hey Leeeeeee-muuuuuuurrrr!, Lemur Lemur Lemur, Leeeeeeee-muuuuuuurrr. Repeat until scratched.
They were just monkeying around.. No need to go bananas...
They are not monkeys...not even close.
look more like raccoons
King Julian is goin' gangsta!
Florida is fast becoming a reality-show trainwreck.
What do you get when you cross a liberal with a lemur?
A smart liberal or an embarrassed lemur.
a lemur that has no job and knows how to sign a govt welfare check?
Something that still has a twenty-point IQ advantage over a RWNJ...
A half drunk weasel that apologizes when he gets done humping your leg and stealing your cheese?
@WinstonSmith99
You know we are waiting for the Black and Jewish jokes next. That's the kind of person you are, someone who only feels good putting others down. Sorry you are losing your country. Take another hit of Meth. It will make you feel better.
You're right charles, the whitetrash are feeling a little frisky tonight.
White trash...nice. Good contribution to the story
A big boehner with a striped tail...
Lemur Lawsuit? I Guess Coming!
"Thank goodness they have Mutual of Omaha insurance. In instances of lemur attack you will rest assured knowing your are covered by Mutual of Omaha. Now when we get back, we'll watch Jim get in the rabid lemur cage, and try to calm them down with this new Spaulding tennis racket. I sure hope they don't go after his new balls!"
"Next on Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, Marlin Perkins gets wild and crazy with a lemur--uh-oh, that didn't come out right, did it?..."
The lemur went ape@!$%# or should I say bananas!! Samething I guess
"I'm only talkin' about the rogue ones...give you a nasty nip they could..."
Is this really "news," or did I just miss something?
I saw a 2-year-old "attacked" by a parakeet, just last week. It didn't make the news, though. Maybe there just wasn't a journalist around to blow-job the event out of proportion.
"New Flash"......"Two year old attacked by flagarantly colored bird with a pecker on his face..."
Uh, a two-year old is getting out of a car at 2:00 AM and ...
And nobody asks why a two year old is out at 2:00 am?
Maybe her mom works and was coming home after picking up her child at a relative. Stop judging and getthe log out of your own eye
Lemurs+ girl= naughtiness.
People who keep any primates in cages as pets have no heart, no compassion.
Not to mention most lemurs are endangered species allegedly protected by the CITES treaty. But in Florida, what the hell, knock yourself out.
This species is fairly regularly bred in captivity now, and it is legal to have them as pets in some states. Florida has particularly lax exotic pet laws. Nobody is breaking any laws by having lemurs though.
Havent been to Gitmo lately? OHHH, my bad they aint primates, they're RAGHEADS!!! Well lets try ATTICA, Federal Lockup in La
Lemurs belong in Madagascar, not a cage in somebody's backyard in Florida.
Where are they going to live? Madagascar pretty much has all of their forest cut down now.
Because humans are a plague worse than locusts
Lemurs are not monkeys. They are prosimians, meaning they are in a class of primate scientifically deemed more "primitive" than monkeys, apes, and humans. The least NBC could do regarding this fairly stupid story is get the facts straight.
I agree with Akira Bear; keeping primates in cages is heartless. And, I pose the same question as Shadylady; why was the two year-old just getting home at 2:00 a.m.? Yes, I know there are probably reasons for the late hour, but it is kind of odd.
They belong in a wok.
Stir-fried Lemur anyone? Lemur and rice with a pine-apple glaze?
In Miami, it's illegal to own a pitbull - a dog - but it's legal to own an exotic, wild animal?
It's probably not legal to own lemurs, but there are plenty of halfwits who will do it anyway especially in Florida (it's too too easy to beat up on Florida of late).
It is legal to own and breed lemurs in Florida, but not sell them outside of the state. You might be surprised at what you can own in Florida.
I rather confront a lemur then a cobra.
tenia que ser latina la cabrona, deberia saber que estos animales no son mascotas, son animales que pertenecen en el medio ambiente, no en una jaula en el patio trasero de la casa.
Such a random article. Who gives a crap?
You know,MSN needs to cut the sensationalism...attacked? Really? A scratch is more like it-they were frightened and easily captured---and what the heck are they doing in a small enclosure not anything like what their natural habitat should be...cruelty and then verbiage by MSN --adding insult to injury.
Ticket the owners---start to ignore the headlines from MSN
Come up to me and scratch me, and the ensuing lawsuit will deem you to have "attacked" me. However, the lemur has an excuse that a human being, at least one who is mentally competent, doesn't have -- it's a mere animal, albeit a primate, and doesn't know any better. Don't know why people feel the need to "own" captive primates -- to prove their superiority? Not sure that it accomplishes that.
Legal, but you are not allowed more than 10 lemurs.
Does ten constitute one full magazine of lemurs?