Not that. I think it was called Patient Zero? Or Outbreak? Or Epidemic. They were trying to find this monkey that made them quarantine this whole town. And then some kid was friends with the monkey, which added an ET rip aspect. And there’s like some big helicopter chase through the mountains. The kind of movie you watch on basic cable late at night when you’re half asleep.
There was a truck full of hostile monkeys infected with hepatitis, herpes, and covid that crashed and they all got loose. Happened yesterday or so. Some may still be on the loose.
The whole thing is a masterpiece example of people not letting reality get in the way of a good story. Nothing happened but a few local news outlets uncritically repeated one incorrect initial sentence from a cop and the national media went absolutely bonkers with the story before it was fact-checked.
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_stranger_@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 304d
The College: Hey! For one, our infected monkeys aren't contagious, and TWO, that monkey wasn't one of the infected ones anyway!
Sheriff: Da fuq y'all got going on over there.
Lazycog@sopuli.xyz · 23 pts · 303d
Since this piece of misinformation about the monkeys has already caused damage: the monkeys are/were not infected. The truck driver told the authorities this info (which was false)
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tazeycrazy@feddit.uk · 22 pts · 304d
I don't want to play any more. How do I get out of this?
Blum0108@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 304d
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 20 pts · 304d
Wasn’t there a movie about this, like 20 years ago.
OpenStars@piefed.social · 15 pts · 304d
Ask again in 28 days...
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 304d
Not that. I think it was called Patient Zero? Or Outbreak? Or Epidemic. They were trying to find this monkey that made them quarantine this whole town. And then some kid was friends with the monkey, which added an ET rip aspect. And there’s like some big helicopter chase through the mountains. The kind of movie you watch on basic cable late at night when you’re half asleep.
OpenStars@piefed.social · 5 pts · 304d
There are indeed several like that. 12 monkies also, but likewise I do not recall which plot is from which movie:-).
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 303d
12 Monkeys was actually kind of a good movie.
But that’s not what I would compare this to.
OpenStars@piefed.social · 1 pts · 303d
Yeah. I suppose the main connection there is "monkey" 🐒
DogWater@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 303d
Outbreak
28 days later
12 monkeys
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 304d
This literally didn’t happen. You are part of the problem.
atro_city@fedia.io · 13 pts · 304d
wat?
Frozengyro@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 304d
There was a truck full of hostile monkeys infected with hepatitis, herpes, and covid that crashed and they all got loose. Happened yesterday or so. Some may still be on the loose.
arrow74@lemmy.zip · 35 pts · 304d
Unfortunately they were not infected with anything. The local sheriff just made that bit up.
The facility does house infected monkeys, but these had not yet been infected and were being relocated to a different facility
tourist@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 304d
🙉
RFK's health department pretty much ensured they all have polio, cholera and COVID-38 by now
missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 304d
is COVID-38 from 13 years in the future or are we just versioning it like web browsers now?
tomenzgg@midwest.social · 2 pts · 304d
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
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DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 1 pts · 304d
There was an episode where Barney Fife thought he had a chance of being in a Hollywood movie...
Life imitates art, again.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 304d
Except there literally wasn’t. It was fake news.
Psythik@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 304d
I thought the police shot them all except one?
Frozengyro@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 304d
I'm not really sure, the article I read said 3 were still on the loose, but also said only 1 was on the loose still.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 304d
The whole thing is a masterpiece example of people not letting reality get in the way of a good story. Nothing happened but a few local news outlets uncritically repeated one incorrect initial sentence from a cop and the national media went absolutely bonkers with the story before it was fact-checked.
its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 304d
Me in Mississippi:
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 304d
I side bet infected lab monkeys every time, just in case. Like playing 0 at the roulette table.
Grass@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 304d
so in the end who was lying, the driver or the lab or the article writer?
daggermoon@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 304d
What is this meme taken from?
TVA@thebrainbin.org · 7 pts · 304d
The Cabin in the Woods
daggermoon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 302d
Thank you. I need to watch this movie, it looks like it's right up my alley.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 3 pts · 303d
Excuse me, wtf?
Naz@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 304d
RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 304d
Again?
P1k1e@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 304d
I just made my girlfriend watch this movie last weekend
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 303d
I had a new outbreak next month