Breaking: CHP Sighting of Monkey or Man-In-Monkey-Suit
Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 7th, 2008
The following is a scanner transcript noted on the California-based website rimoftheworld.net. It details a possible “monkey” or “man-in-monkey-suit” sighting. For those unfamiliar with “CHP,” it stands for the “California Highway Patrol.”
Big Bear Lake is a four seasons resort community surrounded by the San Bernardino National Forest, 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles. The distance between Devore, California, where Moe escaped, and this location, is about 50 miles across unforgiving terrain, forested areas, and through or around two other lakeside areas.
The transcript goes from the most recent to the oldest part of the interactions. I have retained it in the fashion in which they chronicle it.
Created: Sun 7/6 10:04 PM
Last Updated: Sun 7/6 11:38 PM
Address: SR18 at MM 44
City: Big Bear Lake, CA
Geocode
Description:
10:36 PM Source: scanner From: 101-32 To: CHP Dispatch
I’m UTL on any 1125 (traffic hazard) monkey on highway 18
10:30 PM Source: scanner From: CHP Dispatch
Suspicious circumstances, 38 at Lake Williams; report of a male running around in a monkey suit {insert laughter from Dispatch}; {101-21} {insert laughter} copy; {101-32} that’s around 18 at MM 44 also
10:24 PM Source: scanner From: CHP Dispatch To: 101-21
Did you receive the report of the animal on the 18 at MM44? {101-21} Can you have 101-32 check on the way in {101-32} is this the monkey? {Dispatch} Yep, it is {101-32} I’ll check on my way back to the office.
10:06 PM Source: other
Transcriber Note: SR18 at MM 44.32 is BIG BEAR DAM, JCT. RTE. 38 NORTHEAST
10:04 PM Source: CHP From: CHP CAD
Incident: 2026
Type: Animal on Road
Location: SR18 MM 44
ThomasBrothers: 4810 2G
9:55PM RP SAW A MONKEY ON THE RHS
RESPONDING OFFICERS STATUS
9:59PM CHP Unit Assigned
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Meanwhile, this report was cross-referenced and double-checked with the search for the chimpanzee Moe.
11:18 a.m.: Moe remains on the loose
Article Created: 07/07/2008 11:19:25 AM PDT
Moe the Chimp remains missing. On Sunday night, scanner reports reported on rimoftheworld.net described someone seeing a monkey, or, a man dressed in a monkey suit.
Despite the supposed sightings, Michael McCasland, a friend of the chimp’s owners who has been acting as their spokesman, discounted the report.
“If it’s something halfway credible, we would have already heard about it,” McCasland said this morning.
Moe has been missing since June 27 when he escaped from his cage at Jungle Exotics near Devore. — Rachel Vaughan
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Too much “monkey business” going on around here…
Wow, this is very similar to last year but they were in a gorilla suit.
Gorilla sighted on the Peninsula.
Note, this area has some very wooded area and are off limits to the public. Good enough for a hairy animal with 2 legs.
You can google hwy 280, hwy 92 to see it.
I wonder if this was the San Francisco gorilla seen last year heading south?
Treacherous best describes the area around the housing communities down there. When they started to build up in the hills around Los Angeles (to the east) the environmentalists made the contractors set aside land for the purpose of planting “native plants”. Well, native to the hills of southern Cali is the kreasote bush (which is highly flammable). The bushes were put in so close and thick that even the deer couldn’t get thru. That’s why those fires down south are so dangerous. If that was the chimp, his only saving grace is his ability to climb. I do hope someone catches him.