Dallas Police Texas-based influencer Brandi Botello was reportedly arrested Saturday morning for drunk driving. Interestingly, although police did not name Botello in their statement, the influencer later contacted NBC Dallas Fort Worth to identify yourself. For what ? Because, after her arrest, authorities also took her pet spider monkey Jorgie Boy, and she wants him back even though her town doesn’t allow residents to keep wild animals as pets. Moreover, as reported by NBC NewsJorgie Boy has since been discovered to be suffering from rickets, a bone disease caused by malnutrition.
As Botello told NBC News, she was intoxicated at the time of the crash, but she was passed out in the passenger seat, holding Jorgie Boy, her almost three-year-old spider monkey. She alleges that a male companion was actually the one driving at the time and says she simply moved into the driver’s seat out of confusion, telling the outlet: “I didn’t know what that was happening. I slept through the car accident. I didn’t even know we had an accident. I wasn’t driving,” adding, “I jumped in the driver’s seat. I didn’t know we crashed in front of the police station. When I turned around, there was a police officer right there and he was trying to charge me with driving, but I wasn’t driving,”
Neither Botello, his monkey, nor his human companion were seriously injured in the accident. Jorgie Boy was first taken into the care of the Irving Animal Control Department before being transferred to an animal sanctuary that has since been identified as the Funky Monkey Ranch in Burleson, Texas. There, they discovered that it weighed just six pounds, less than half the weight of a spider monkey of the same age. Jorgie Boy also suffered from small bone fractures and also appears to have liver and pancreas problems. As you can imagine, the owner of the shrine has no intention of returning Jorgie Boy to Botello.
Yet Botello wrote on Instagram that, despite all evidence to the contrary, “He means more to me than I won’t let one little mistake break me. I am ready to change everything for him. » She then continued: “Being in the wrong place at the wrong time is a reality. I admitted it…I know I’m a good mother…WE ALL KNOW IT! »
Ignoring the part where a monkey is a pet and not a child, as we all know, good mothers often leave their children’s rickets untreated. It happens all the time, just like scurvy, polio and measles. If Jorgie Boy wasn’t safe with his mother, where would it end? Who’s to say that the big, bad government in Texas won’t intervene soon when it discovers that human children have easily preventable diseases? Are we also going to have to teach them to read? In my opinion, Texas is starting to look more and more like the communist community every day. This is absolutely ridiculous! What happened to the land of the free?
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