Rampage: An irate Sueko is captured by the dashboard camera as she leaps on to the bonnet of a police car in Kansas CityA 21 stone pet chimpanzee broke free from its chains and shattered the windscreen of a police car during a rampage through Kansas City.
Female Sueko - known as Sue - escaped from her owner's home and was spotted shoving around bins and wandering around a suburb of the city.
Animal control officers were called and shot the animal with a tranquiliser dart, but she shrugged off the effects and kept going.
Damage: Cracks are visible on the patrol car windscreen after the female chimpanzee smashed it with her fistsThe enraged animal then slams a bin into the front of a police car, climbs up on to the bonnet and shatters the windscreen with a powerful blow from her fists before leaping off and sitting by the road.
Eventually Sueko was coaxed back into a cage by her owner and taken home, but city officials have now confiscated her.
Police said she was capable of opening doors and her owner, Mark Archigo, had been cited for having a dangerous animal within city limits.
Escape: The 300lb primate shoved a bin into the front of the patrol car before clambering on to the bonnet
The camera captures the chimp as she effortlessly pushes the bin along the ground in a Kansas City suburbKansas City officials said: 'The decision was in the best interest of the community and the animal.'
David Park, director of the Neighbourhood Community Services Department, said the city could confiscate the chimp because of repeated infractions by the owner.
Officials first confiscated Sueko in 1995 and sent her to Kansas City Zoo, but she was returned to her owner after he threatened to sue and promised to keep her outside the city limits.
Mr Park added: 'We have much more history to support the decision.'
Close encounter: Animal control officers shot Sueko with a tranquiliser dart but she shrugged off its effects
Freedom: The animal had been spotted shoving bins around near Kansas City Zoo
Confiscated: Eventually owner Mark Archigo coaxed Sueko into a cage and took her back to his home but she has now been seized by officials
source :dailymail
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