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Poop-throwing monkey makes grandma wish she never came to the zoo

"It got grandma!"

It should've been just an ordinary day watching wild animals hang out in man-made preserves.

Primates in nature can throw poop to their heart's content, where it lands being unimportant. There's nothing out in the jungle like, say, a grandma, that would be particularly offended by getting hit squarely by a hunk of gorilla poop.

But we're not in the jungle.

Erin Vargo was at the John Ball Zoo in Michigan when one of the inhabitants of the Africa exhibited started to get angry. Like, poop-hurling angry.

The victim of this poop hurl? A grandma.

The most grandma-looking grandma that could've possibly been in attendance. This poor, sweet, innocent, windbreaker-wearing grandma. Right in her face.

The final shot of -- god it's hard to even type out -- poop hanging off her nose is honestly haunting.

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"It got grandma!" someone is heard saying delightedly, for some reason. Does the gorilla even know what it did?

More importantly, would it even care that it's gone viral?

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