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Monkey attack kills Delhi leader
BBC News ^
| 21 October 2007
| Staff
Posted on 10/22/2007 1:08:24 AM PDT by Aristotelian
The deputy mayor of the Indian capital Delhi has died a day after being attacked by a horde of wild monkeys. SS Bajwa suffered serious head injuries when he fell from the first-floor terrace of his home on Saturday morning trying to fight off the monkeys.
The city has long struggled to counter its plague of monkeys, which invade government complexes and temples, snatch food and scare passers-by.
The High Court demanded the city find an answer to the problem last year.
Solution elusive
One approach has been to train bands of larger, more ferocious langur monkeys to go after the smaller groups of Rhesus macaques.
The city has also employed monkey catchers to round them up so they can be moved to forests.
But the problem has persisted.
Culling is seen as unacceptable to devout Hindus, who revere the monkeys as a manifestation of the monkey god Hanuman, and often feed them bananas and peanuts.
Urban development around the city has also been blamed for destroying the monkeys' natural habitat.
Mr Bajwa, a member of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is survived by his wife and a son, according to the Press Trust of India news agency.
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One approach has been to train bands of larger, more ferocious langur monkeys to go after the smaller groups of Rhesus macaques. Why does this strike me as a bad idea?
To: Aristotelian
Seems to me the answer is in the expression "When given lemons, make lemonade".
Here is a great new food source!
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posted on
10/22/2007 1:11:47 AM PDT
by
C210N
To: Aristotelian
I want a pack of trained attack monkeys.
Is this bad?
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posted on
10/22/2007 1:14:10 AM PDT
by
SIDENET
(Hubba Hubba...)
To: SIDENET
I want a pack of trained attack monkeys. Is this bad?
Well, it's less fun than a barrel of them.
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posted on
10/22/2007 1:19:39 AM PDT
by
Squeako
(If Muslims take over, will liberals question the carbon footprint of suicide bombs and flag burning?)
To: Aristotelian
One approach has been to train bands of larger, more ferocious langur monkeys to go after the smaller groups of Rhesus macaques. Gorilla warfare seems to have broken out.
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posted on
10/22/2007 1:27:43 AM PDT
by
Riley
(The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
To: Aristotelian
Here we come
Walking down the street
Get the funniest looks from
Everyone we meet...
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posted on
10/22/2007 1:30:08 AM PDT
by
Riley
(The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
To: Aristotelian
I could think of several things to do with too many monkeys!
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posted on
10/22/2007 1:38:24 AM PDT
by
MarineBrat
(My wife and I took an AIDS vaccination that the Church offers.)
To: Riley
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posted on
10/22/2007 1:39:24 AM PDT
by
Westlander
(Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
To: Westlander
Where have I seen this before?
MR. BUSH! ABOUT IRAQ!!!
You've already had your turn, David!
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posted on
10/22/2007 1:46:30 AM PDT
by
Caipirabob
(Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
To: Aristotelian
The deputy mayor of the Indian capital Delhi has died a day after being attacked by a horde of wild monkeys.I hate that when it happens.
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posted on
10/22/2007 1:49:29 AM PDT
by
Roy Tucker
("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality"--Ayn Rand)
To: Aristotelian
when a people take their mythology so seriously as this , look at what imbalances it leads to .Cities overrun with monkeys , temples dedicated to rats , cows standing around in the middle of all the streets , eating garbage....
To: Caipirabob
Actually, it’s my in-laws.
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posted on
10/22/2007 2:08:03 AM PDT
by
Westlander
(Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
To: Aristotelian
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posted on
10/22/2007 2:11:11 AM PDT
by
endthematrix
(He was shouting 'Allah!' but I didn't hear that. It just sounded like a lot of crap to me.)
To: Aristotelian
I’m thinking a hundred hunters armed with Colt .45 ACP and 100 hollow point or pre-fragmented rounds plus a declared “stay at home day for the general population”, ought to go a long way to fix this problem.
To: endthematrix
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posted on
10/22/2007 3:26:34 AM PDT
by
tuffydoodle
(Shut up voices, or I'll poke you with a Q-Tip again.)
To: Aristotelian
The city has long struggled to counter its plague of monkeys, which invade government complexes and temples, snatch food and scare passers-by.We have the same problem here, and we keep voting for them.
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posted on
10/22/2007 3:30:40 AM PDT
by
shekkian
To: endthematrix
Hey! That’s my old boss! Second from the left.
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posted on
10/22/2007 3:49:38 AM PDT
by
Roccus
(Hillary........brought to you by the PRC)
To: Aristotelian
plink!
plink!
plink!
plink!
What don’t these people understand about...
...plink?????
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posted on
10/22/2007 3:57:00 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
(" an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein "MOLON LABE!" Leonidas of Sparta)
To: Aristotelian; martin_fierro; aculeus; dighton; Lijahsbubbe
In case you are curious about the ringleader of these malicious, marauding monkeys:
To: C210N
Here is a great new food source! Isn't that how AIDS started in humans?
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posted on
10/22/2007 3:59:30 AM PDT
by
Go Gordon
(The short fortune teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.)
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