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Monkey Phobia Woman Savaged By Macaques
11:14am UK, Friday June 18, 2010Damien Pearse, Sky News Online
A British woman who went to a Thai nature resort to conquer her fear of monkeys has been savaged by a pack of macaques.
Dee Darwell, 56, lost consciousness after the monkeys surrounded her and sank their teeth into her arms and body.
Many of the primates remained hanging from her limbs as she lay collapsed with blood spurting from a “deep, deep hole” in her arm.
She was eventually rescued by Thai boatmen and was taken to Bangkok Phuket Hospital.
Then, the monkey took my wrist and pounced on my right arm, sinking his teeth in and hung off it.
The horrific attack happened on Monkey Island near to the popular holiday island of Phuket in southern Thailand.
“I thought I was heading for safety under this rock in the shade, only to cool down,” Mrs Darwell, from Peterborough, said.
“I laid the towel down and there were no monkeys in sight.
“The next thing I noticed, this monkey walked up next to me and I thought, oh dear, and I began to stand up to move away.
“Then, the monkey took my wrist and pounced on my right arm, sinking his teeth in and hung off it.
“He wouldn’t let go; he was locked on. I was absolutely petrified.”
Thai fishermen ran to the rescue after spotting more monkeys joining the assault and began prising them off.
Mrs Darwell said she had agreed to go on the Siam Sea Canoe tour with a friend to confront her fear of monkeys.
Her phobia had been triggered by her father bringing up a chimpanzee which she described as “positively evil”.
She said: “I thought, this is it, I’m going to die, I’m going to be savaged by these monkeys – then I went into shock.”
Mrs Darwell added: “I wouldn’t have got off that bloody boat if the tour guide would have said at all that there was any danger, any risk, even the slightest risk.”
Tour leader Mr Yongyut Buasod said: “We can’t control the monkeys if they decide to bite someone, that’s why we always warn the tourists.
“That day some people were teasing the monkeys. They don’t necessarily attack the specific person teasing them.”
she doesn’t look that savaged to me :lol:
@pete wrote:
she doesn’t look that savaged to me :lol:
I expected to see a pic of someone covered in bites and in a right state, not sitting in a sundress with one bandage on her arm and no other apparent marks on her!
Still, must have been frightening….
I’ll bet that’s a nasty bite. You should be ashamed, Pete. She seems just like anyone’s mum.
@pikey wrote:
I’ll bet that’s a nasty bite. You should be ashamed, Pete. She seems just like anyone’s mum.
:shock:
So nasty and painful she couldn’t possibly dress up and pose nicely for the nice photographer.
The monkeys probably took exception to her hairstyle.
‘Savaging’ har arm was a small price to pay.
Tetanus next i guess. They have nasty bites do monkeys.. .bit like some of the people who post on these boards. Or used to. :D
When I went to Kenya I got mugged by a Baboon, it ran at me and stole my packed lunch out of my hands, (I never argued) I was gutted but amazed to watch it carefully unwrap my cling filmed lunch and shell the egg but seeing it toss the litter to float off across the african plains I felt like a massive litter lout! The monkeys there for being wild certainly were used to tourists, you could be sitting by the pool enjoying a beer and next thing you would look and one would be sitting next to your sunlounger knocking back ya drink! The cheek!! Blowback from a monkey is not the one!
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