When Travis was about 6 or 7 is when Sandy started realizing that he was a little more than she could handle. But that was her son, so she was going to make it work. She just kept pretending that everything was fine. A chimp in diapers, Travis, all 170 pounds of it, leaped from his owner’s SUV. For several hours, he commandeered the intersection, causing residents of the neighborhood to be ordered back into their homes. He was running around the street spanking people. And it was kind of humorous at the time. Travis the chimp played in the middle of the street, rolled on his back. Two hours later, Travis decided he’d had enough and came back to his owner. Sandy said he wanted ice cream. That’s how they got him back into the car. Ultimately, isn’t this the way the movie The Conquest of the planet of the apes started? Take your hands off me, you damn dirty ape. After that, the laws changed in Connecticut. They called it the Travis Amendment. If anyone had a primate that was 50 pounds or more, that they had to have a permit, but they never enforced it.