Published 15 July 2017
Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News
Published by SKNvibes –
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – A young woman is urging citizens and residents to be wary of monkeys with which they might come into contact in St. Kitts and Nevis, as she had a painful physical encounter with one of the primates.
Shadwell resident Narissa Wilson is currently nursing several wounds on her right leg and other minor injuries to her body that were inflicted by a vicious monkey with which she had a scuffle yesterday (July 14).
Wilson recounted to SKNVibes that some time after 7:00 p.m. yesterday, she was at a friend’s home in College Housing when she saw a monkey approaching the residence.
She indicated that the primate began pounding on the fly screen of one of the living room windows that was open.
“The monkey continued knocking the sifter. It was trying to get into the house but, even so, the house has on burglar bars. But for some reason I felt that it would have come in anyway, so we decided to pepper spray the monkey. We didn’t have any pepper spray, so we used a Bop [spray]”.
However, that is when the incident took a strange turn, as Wilson stated that while using the insecticide spray the monkey became aggressive and began pounding heavier on the window.
“The neighbour down the road was calling the monkey by its name and I couldn’t understand what they were saying. But they were calling it by the name. It stood on its hind legs and looked in the direction of the neighbour who was calling it.
“Upon stopping and looking a fellow was coming and it run off the landing and started looking at the fellow. When he walked, the monkey also walked, and when he stopped, the monkey stopped too,” Wilson explained.
She stated that the monkey left with the neighbour but returned shortly after, and her friend asked her to take their baby outside after two individuals took control of the primate.
However, that did not stop the monkey from breaking free to begin its vicious attack on the woman.
Wilson said that after placing the 2-year-old infant in the rear seat of her vehicle, she heard a voice crying out that “the monkey is coming, the monkey is coming” and it began his attack.
“The monkey came back to the door of the jeep after it chased the woman and she ran inside the house. After my daughter closed the door, I knocked on it because she was scared. When my daughter opened the door all I saw was the monkey leaping after me and I had no other choice but to toss the child.”
Wilson said she had to fight with the primate to get it off of her, at which point she had sustained injuries.
The woman noted that she did not realize that she was bitten, but during the struggle she said that “I hit it in the head and it ran”.
“I thought that the monkey had gone so I got inside the jeep but the monkey started jumping up on the bonnet and pounding it. I started screaming and I thought it had left after hearing the noise, but he jump up on the roof and threw himself on the windscreen. I then started the vehicle and turned off with a lot of speed, and that was how we got away.”
A bloodied and weak Wilson nightmare continued when she went to lodge a report at the Basseterre Police Station.
She told SKNVibes that she felt light-headed and cold when she entered the police station to recount her horrific ordeal, only to be met by laughter from the officers on duty.
SKNVibes asked Wilson if she believed it was a wild primate, to which she responded in the negative and noted that it is owned by a popular businessman (name provided) who was communicating with it.
Wilson visited the JNF General Hospital, where she received five stitches and spent the night with a number of needles attached to her body.
