Monkeys Behaving Badly
The police in Cambodia have placed a bounty on the heads of gangster monkeys that are terrorizing tourists at the Wat Phnom pagoda. The marauding macaques have been biting the tourists and stealing the laundry of local residents as well.
At least three of the large macaques, which have been biting tourists at the famed Wat Phnom pagoda and also tearing up Internet lines, are being targeted, deputy district governor Pich Socheata told AFP.
"There are more than 200 monkeys there, but only three monkeys that behave badly… they behave like gang leaders," she said.
"The other monkeys are afraid of people. But these monkeys are not — they are scaring tourists visiting Wat Phnom."
Authorities tried several times to get the unruly monkeys to eat eggs laced with sleeping pills, but had always been outsmarted, she said, hence the bounty.
Word is that American production companies are in negotiations with the gang leaders to film a reality television series about the monkeys behaving badly. They figure that if people will watch Dancing With the Washed Up Has-Beens, they'll watch Monkeys Gone Wild.
By feeblemind, Friday, 28 September , 2007 @ 10:13 am
Sounds like grist for a Disney animated cartoon to me.