chased to her death off rooftop by gang of raging monkeys in 3rd 'macaque murder' in 3 months

The Sun ^ | January 18, 2019 | Mark Hodge

[bagster]

Now don't try to kid me, mancub
I'll make a deal with you
What I desire is man's red fire
To make my dream come true
Now, give me the secret, mancub
Come on, clue me what to do
Give me the power of man's red flower
So I can be like you

I wanna be a man, mancub And stroll right into town

[centermass_socrates]

I believe in the Peter Gabriel response: Don’t you know you’ve got to SHOCK the monkey?

[Vigilanteman]

Even those cute harmless looking snow monkeys in Japan can be vicious. We were visiting the monkey's hot spring near Nagano when my girls we little.

When my back was turned, my middle daughter, age 5, had pulled an apple out of her backpack and was starting to munch on it when one of those monkeys made an aggressive approach.

She started to run and I sized up the situation quickly and told her to throw the apple. She didn't so I snatched it and did. Fortunately, the monkey stopped the pursuit of us and went off in pursuit of the apple. There was no way we could outrun them.

[Mears]

Thanks God you were there-——nasty little buggers.

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[IamConservative]

This is why we need high capacity magazines.

[Boogieman]

There are a few temples where the monks give them sanctuary and people feed them, but outside of that, no, they are not protected. They have professional monkey catchers like we have dog catchers over here who try to grab them and clear them out of the cities.

[PAR35]

They never should have shown “Planet of of the Apes” at an outdoor theater. Planted the idea in the monkeys’ heads.

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[ETL]

Tonight's feature on Monster Chiller Horror Theater is The Killer Monkeys

Did you ever see the film Congo?

[ETL]

[be-baw]

macaque kung fu. Who’d a thunk?

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Maybe they need to start spanking their monkeys.

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'Monkey Selfie' Lawsuit Ends With Settlement Between PETA, Photographer

September 12, 2017

Back in 2011, Naruto was just an anonymous macaque in the jungles of Indonesia. On one particular day, however, the photogenic primate happened upon a wildlife photographer’s camera and snapped a “monkey selfie.”

Whether the act was intentional or a quite-too-literal instance of monkeying around, only the grinning primate knows for certain. But it raised a complicated question: Who owns the images Naruto took, the monkey or the man?

It also started a years-long saga in which the U.S. Copyright Office and even Wikipedia weighed in.

On Monday, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals announced a settlement with photographer David Slater, ending a lawsuit it filed on Naruto’s behalf. Under the deal, Slater agreed to donate 25 percent of future revenue from the photos to groups that protect crested macaques and their habitat in Indonesia.

Both sides also asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals “to dismiss the case and throw out a lower court decision that said animals cannot own copyrights,” The Associated Press reports.

“PETA and David Slater agree that this case raises important, cutting-edge issues about expanding legal rights for nonhuman animals, a goal that they both support, and they will continue their respective work to achieve this goal,” read a joint statement on the group’s website. ...”

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/12/550417823/-animal-rights-advocates-photographer-compromise-over-ownership-of-monkey-selfie

[higgmeister]

Wow! It’s good seeing Joe Flaherty’s picture again! That guy was a real funny man.

[DannyTN]

I often have the same problem. You want to grab on somewhere, but where?!