Texas woman gets fired after jumping into monkey enclosure at local zoo

Published May 26, 2021 6:53pm ET



A Texas woman who jumped into a monkey enclosure to feed the animals hot Cheetos was fired from her job as a litigation assistant over her “irresponsible and reckless behavior.”

The woman, identified by news reports as Lucy Rae, was seen in the El Paso Zoo enclosure in an Instagram video shared on Saturday. In the video, Rae can be heard giggling and seen throwing and handing the Cheetos to the monkeys.

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