A Royal Marine in Sierra Leone was shot at by a chimpanzee

imported_Fluffy_Bunny

I'm reading a book about the Sierra Leonian conflict (2000) & these Royal Marines were in a firefight when one of them spotted a pot smoking chimp wielding a AK47 oOo: The chimp belonged to the notorious 'West Side Boys' and had apparently been pressed into their service. eek:

Sgt. Paine · 03-22-2004, 04:25 PM

Madmartagen · 03-22-2004, 04:30 PM

Did anyone get shot, did they kill the chimp?

imported_Fluffy_Bunny · 03-22-2004, 04:33 PM

These guys were basically cut off & trying to escape the country, dunno what happened to the chimp but quite a few of the west side boys got wasted.

Mr.Buttocks

[quote="Fluffy_Bunny":90fd6]I'm reading a book about the Sierra Leonian conflict (2000) & these Royal Marines were in a firefight when one of them spotted a pot smoking chimp wielding a AK47 oOo: The chimp belonged to the notorious 'West Side Boys' and had apparently been pressed into their service. eek:[/quote:90fd6]

Monkeys are great - especially pot-smoking, gun-toting ones. What's the name of this book? I must read it.

imported_Fluffy_Bunny · 03-22-2004, 04:58 PM

Unscathed, Major Phil Ashby.

[img]http://www.whsmith.co.uk/thumbnails/0330491474.jpg[/img]

Major Phil Ashby already had a reputation for surviving scrapes, where others would - and did - break bones and worse. His strength, resourcefulness and luck had been tested to the full during his career in the Royal Marines' elite Mountain and Arctic Warfare Cadre and various adventurous expeditions. That luck, however, appeared to have run out in May 2000 when he was working for the UN, disarming brutalized rebels in war-ravaged Sierra Leone. When the rebels turned on the UN's representatives, butchering, skinning alive and dismembering several peace-keepers and taking over 500 hostages, it seemed that all was lost and that Ashby and the other two Brits and a Kiwi would perish violently and gruesomely. Instead Ashby took the decision to die quickly rather than slowly by attempting to escape through the rebel lines. They were vastly outnumbered. They were unarmed. Somehow he led his three colleagues on a daring, dramatic and heart-stopping escape through hostile jungle. He was awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal for his actions.

http://www.whsmith.co.uk/whs/go.asp?isb ... 474&DB=220

Mr.Buttocks · 03-22-2004, 05:06 PM

[quote="Fluffy_Bunny":69935]Unscathed, Major Phil Ashby.

[img]http://www.whsmith.co.uk/thumbnails/0330491474.jpg[/img]

[i]Major Phil Ashby already had a reputation for surviving scrapes, where others would - and did - break bones and worse. His strength, resourcefulness and luck had been tested to the full during his career in the Royal Marines' elite Mountain and Arctic Warfare Cadre and various adventurous expeditions. That luck, however, appeared to have run out in May 2000 when he was working for the UN, disarming brutalized rebels in war-ravaged Sierra Leone. When the rebels turned on the UN's representatives, butchering, skinning alive and dismembering several peace-keepers and taking over 500 hostages, it seemed that all was lost and that Ashby and the other two Brits and a Kiwi would perish violently and gruesomely. Instead Ashby took the decision to die quickly rather than slowly by attempting to escape through the rebel lines. They were vastly outnumbered. They were unarmed. Somehow he led his three colleagues on a daring, dramatic and heart-stopping escape through hostile jungle. He was awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal for his actions. [/i]

[url="http://www.whsmith.co.uk/whs/go.asp?isbn=0330491474&DB=220"]http://www.whsmith.co.uk/whs/go.asp?isb ... 474&DB=220[/url][/quote:69935]

Cool. Thanks for the info.