'It got grandma:' Chimpanzee flings poop at woman's face

Cellphone video of feces-flinging simian becomes viral sensation

Cellphone video showing a chimpanzee at a Michigan zoo flinging feces in a woman's face has become an internet sensation.

The video, posted Sunday on Facebook by Erin Vargo, captured the incident at the John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids.

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"So Jake and I thought we were going to have an average day at the zoo … turns out it would be the day of the funniest thing I've ever seen in my entire life," Vargo wrote on Facebook. "I'm seriously dying of laughter. And I can't believe I got it on video."

It shows the chimpanzee becoming agitated by onlookers. Moments later, the chimpanzee hurls a fresh bowel movement toward the crowd, with a piece landing on a woman's nose.

"It got grandma," one person said in the video.


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