Monkey Business in Varanasi

nedhopkins

A bold monkey:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19806344/

My own experience with a thieving monkey came at the Ariau Jungle Towers in the Amazon. I put my Pentel in my lap in order to open an envelope; a monkey scrambled over, grabbed the pen, and threw it into the river.

Epicure

A South Korean tourist has filed a formal complaint against a monkey he says stole his reading glasses during his visit to the Hindu holy city of Varanasi in northern India.

Read the complete story here..........

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070717/...monkey_thief_3

After reading this article, i came to know for the first time, being an Indian, that our cops even undertake search operations to locate a monkey if a compliant is lodged against it. Let's see whether they will be successful or not.

Just out of curiosity, what could be the punishment for the monkey if it is located...? any guesses.....? lawyers please come forward

sunilg

I've seen this happening in front of me twice.

At Ghaziabad's main railway station, there used to be this monkey who would come surreptitiously and snatch away the glasses of passengers sitting on the benches of the platform But, the monkey didn't do anything with the glasses, he just threw it on the roof.

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Amyth

The animal rights activists conclude that the careless behaviour in handling the glasses is the main factor that provoked the monkeys...So the Lawyers don't have a case, but to agree ...now..lets get the tourist!!

A single act of carelessness leads to the eternal loss of Glasses!!

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ba9rn

Maybe that's the problem. If the glasses were in a case, said monkey could not have accessed them.

(Sorry, couldn't resist!)

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Amyth

Ha ha...A good point in the CASE!!

musicgap

Or perhaps that should be: A good case in point In any case an amusing thread!
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Shaktipalooza

A few years ago in Varanasi I was sitting inside a hotel restaurant, eating breakfast. There was an open window directly behind me and about 8 feet off the ground. Suddenly a monkey jumped onto the table directly in front of me.

We had a little stare-down while he slowly reached for my orange juice box, grabbed it, and started ripping it open with his teeth. So I figured the monkey eating my breakfast was a good photo op. I started to slowly reach for my camera bag when suddenly the monkey decided I had other intentions. He lunged forward, grabbed my leg and bared some pretty sharp looking teeth.

I yanked up my camera bag and went for the roundhouse, but alas, the monkey was too quick as he leaped back up to the window and disappeared.

Silly monkey.

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Darmabum

Just a year ago this month my girlfriend and I were on a raised roof above Tulsi Ghat for sunset . . . giant bats flying low over the water . . . monkeys starting to congregate in the trees over our heads . . . surreal, Wizard of Oz-ish . . . then the monkeys came down and surrounded us . . . one of them, large male, took a liking to my girlfriend's scarf . . . walked up behind her and took it in his hands . . . started pulling . . . I told her to keep low and get away, while it unravelled from around her neck . . . I had one end in my hand, the monkey had the other . . . when I stood up he realized I was a bigger monkey than he was, and he let go.

Several years earlier on the roof of a guesthouse near Tulsi Ghat I caught a monkey on the roof taking someone clothes drying on a line. Without thinking I took a couple of steps towards him, he barred his teeth . . . I let him keep the underwear.

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Nattusbs

Dharmabum wrote:

"Several years earlier on the roof of a guesthouse near Tulsi Ghat I caught a monkey on the roof taking someone clothes drying on a line. Without thinking I took a couple of steps towards him, he barred his teeth . . . I let him keep the underwear."

When I read this I thought, " which underwear - the one on a line drying or yours? "

Cheers

Nattusbs

Darmabum

the underwear in question belonged to someone else . . . however, had he wanted mine, they were his . . . though after seeing his barred teeth, and after his taking a somewhat aggressive step toward me, I don't think he would have wanted them