Tupelo Goes Bananas

Oliver "Capuchin" Monkey is still on the run in Tupelo, Mississippi. You may remember that Oliver picked the lock on his cell door and broke out of confinement. He has outsmarted his pursuers at every turn despite having been spotted on numerous occasions. Now, an anonymous local business man has upped the ante on Oliver offering a huge reward for his capture. Yes, it's all the bananas you can eat for whoever brings the escapee to justice.

A local businessman Thursday offered a reward for anyone in the country able to capture the white-face capuchin that escaped from a zoo here this week.

The reward includes a weekend stay at the Tupelo Hilton Garden Inn, a VIP tour of the Elvis Presley Birthplace and Museum, a VIP tour of the Tupelo Automobile Museum, and – of course – a case of bananas.

“I think we live in the best small town in America, and we ought to promote it every
chance we get,” said the donor, who wished to remain anonymous.

Oliver’s escape from the Tupelo Buffalo Park and Zoo on Tuesday sparked a citywide search for the sneaky primate and made international news headlines, appearing in newspapers and TV broadcasts as far away as South Africa and Taiwan.

It also appeared Wednesday on the David Letterman Show and even inspired the talk-show comedian’s Top 10 List that night.

It is quite obvious that Oliver has figured out how to hide in plain sight in Tupelo. Given that Tupelo is the birthplace of Elvis Presley and the site of an annual Elvis festival, we here at Blue Crab Boulevard believe we have solved the mystery! Where's our bananas?

(Side Note: That is one creepy photoshop…..)

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  By Bleepless, Thursday, 2 August , 2007 @ 8:01 pm

  He looks like Sil in The Sopranos.

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  By BlogDog, Thursday, 2 August , 2007 @ 8:16 pm

  Maybe he thought he was a Ca-pooch-in monkey and he wadn’t nothing but a hound dog..

  I’m just sayin….

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