Posted on 10/02/2012 5:23:02 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Health officials have laid down the law and say they'll be no monkeying around until Mookie the monkey is deemed virus-free.
Mookie, a 19-year-old white-faced Capuchin pet monkey, is on house arrest for 30-days until it can be cleared of all viruses by a veterinarian after he bit a man on Merritt Island nera a convenience store, officials said, reports Florida Today in Melbourne.
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Well, rather than place it under arrest should the owner have just spanked his monkey in order to make it behave?
I wouldn’t mess around with monkeys. They have powerful jaws and sharp teeth needed to bite through the thick rinds of tropical fruit.
In 1920, King Alexander of Greece died from a monkey bite. This led Britain, France and Italy to pull the plug on aid to Greece in its war with Turkey, since the new king had favored neutrality during WWI. As a result, Greece lost the war, and Christian civilization in Anatolia was eradicated. It is said that the bite of a monkey caused a quarter million deaths.
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