Target: Jimmy Dunn, District Attorney General for Sevierville, TN
Goal: Seek justice for monkeys allegedly left to die excruciating deaths in lethally hot car.
While news of animal-related heat deaths tragically come every summer, the reports typically involve dogs. This distressing narrative changed at Tennessee’s Soaky Mountain Water Park, however. While individuals and families cooled off with watery rides inside the park, two monkeys were apparently suffocating in the parking lot.
Employees found two young marmoset monkeys, both just weeks old, in a car on the premises. One of the monkeys had died, while the other was urgently taken for treatment for severe dehydration. The outside temperatures on this day alone were around 87 degrees. Since the heat inside closed vehicles can feel 100-plus degrees in just half an hour, these monkeys likely endured agony. The owners of the vehicle, Indiana couple Nova Brettell and David Paul, have been charged with animal cruelty.
Sign the petition below to ensure these suspects are held fully accountable for this tragedy if they are deemed responsible.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear Mr. Dunn,
Water parks are supposed to be a source of care-free fun during hot summer days. The Soaky Mountain Water Park apparently became the scene of a horrible heat-related tragedy, however, when two young monkeys—one deceased—were discovered inside a blazing hot car. As these animals share such a close relationship with humans, imagine the torment and terror they must have experienced.
These living beings deserved better than to have their lives endangered or ended in such an excruciating and entirely preventable manner. When all current and potentially pending charges have been filed against the couple allegedly involved, please prosecute this egregious case to the fullest extent of the law.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
Photo Credit: Miriam Fischer
These heartless morons MUST be held responsible for their callous acts and the unspeakable suffering they caused to these totally defenseless animals. Jail time and a LIFETIME BAN from ever keeping any animal must be imposed. Horrifying and heartbreaking.
Damn right. I wrote to POTUS about an executive order to take effect.
That’s awesome. I would like to do the same. Any chance you can post a template of your letter? Thank you!
Good job!!
Fuck the owners!!!
SERIOUSLY???? It’s bad enough these MONSTERS are ruining their lives by stealing them from their natural habitat, but to treat them like their useless trash is sickening!!! HARSH JAIL/FINES FOR BOTH OF THEM AND LIFETIME BAN OF EVER BEING IN ANY POSSESSION OF ANY SORT OF PET!!!!
Damn right. I wrote to POTUS about an executive order to take effect.
Why does the law allow morons to even have exotic animals in their possession, let alone locked in a baking hot car? Where the hell are the laws to stop this sort of barbaric treatment of helpless animals?
Why are people so stupid and what are they doing with monkeys selling them to labs for experimenting on??
Death penalty in a hot car for these 2 idiots!!!!
MONKEYS DO NOT NEED TO BE PEOPLE’S PETS!!! These STUPUD PEOPLE SHOULD BE CHARGED WITH ANIMAL CRUELTY!! THEIR PUNISHMEBT SHOULD BEBLOCKED IN A CAR WITH ALL WINDOWS ROLLED UP SITTINGBIN DIRECT SUNLIGHT FOR SEVERAL HOURS WITHOUT ANY ACCESS TO FOOD AND WATER!!!!!!!!!
These idiots should not be allowed to own any living breathing creature! There is no fix for stupidity and they deserve the most severe punishment you have, the deserve it!
What are these two flaming assholes doing with any kind of pet, how selfish and self serving the two of them need punishment and never any pets!
May Karma find these irresponsible old idiots! These old morons go into a waterpark and have a great time while these babies are dying! These animals are as close to human as any animal! would these idiots have left their children or grandchildren in car?! these worthless pieces of oxygen need to be made an example of and NEVER allowed to have another animal and they do significant jail time! in order for those babies to be ripped from their mothers, the mothers were most likely killed! I hope a slow, excruciating cancer kills both of them! Waste of humans!
For the little monkey that didnt make it RIP baby… To the other one who survived I wish you long happy life with a loving family that will take GOOD care of you as you deserve!!!
Most random thing I’ve read in ages…why are monkeys…in a car…in a water park…in TN??? Wtf
These people should definitely do some jail time and also get a hefty fine. I can’t even imagine what these two poor monkeys went through before one died and the other was rescued. They should also be prohibited from ever owning any animal ever again. They were simply heartless.
These two idiots need to be locked in a hot car for several hours. If they survive, they should then be locked up in a jail cell. They should never, ever have in their possession any living animal and should never babysit a baby human either. Do people have any common sense anymore?
Put SCUMBAG POSs Nova Brettell and David Paul behind bars NOW!
Indiana couple Nova Brettell and David Paul NEED to be left in a brutally HOT car until….
Charge them and punish with the maximum !!!!!
People shouldn’t be allowed to own primates,they’re wild animals,not pets & these idiots should never be allowed to own any kind of animal ever again.That poor monkey would have died a slow excruciating death.
Seriously, where the hell has common sense gone? This was a heartless act, and these people must NEVER be allowed another animal in their possession again.
Man müsste diese 2 Mist Monster diese dummen auch in ein heißes Auto bringen und ersticken lassen so wie diese beiden armen Äffchen, das ist grausam wie konnten die das nur tun ,sind diese Idioten so dämlich? Nie wieder dürfen diese Leute Tiere bekommen und halten, ein lebenslanges Verbot!!
Let them roast
Ignorant and Evil! Please prosecute to the fullest extent!!!