Posted on 09/15/2020 10:59:18 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A Malaysian student who had lost his phone found it again only a day later - with some unexpected new additions to his camera roll.
Zackrydz Rodzi thought someone must have stolen his phone while he was asleep, but he couldn’t know for sure because there were no obvious signs of robbery.
Speaking to the BBC, Rodzi said he woke up mid-morning on Saturday and realised his phone was gone.
Pictures timecoded to 2pm on the same day show a monkey peering down the lens with bright green foliage and birds in the background.
The monkey appeared to be trying to eat the phone.
On Sunday, the computer science student’s dad noticed a monkey outside their house in Batu Pahat, in the southern state of Johor.
He used his own phone to ring his son’s - and heard a distant ringing in the jungle behind their back garden.
The phone was located under a palm tree, covered in mud.
Rodzi said he thought the monkey must have snuck in through his brother’s open bedroom window.
He shared the pictures to Twitter on Sunday, writing: “Something that you might see once in a century.”
I was expecting to see Obama.
I was expecting to see Obama.
Looks like Antifa to me.....
Monkeys creep me out, I’m glad we hunted them to extinction here in Michigan.......
I might be putting bars on the windows if I lived there.
Monkey could have been doing worse things with it.
At least he wasn't making long distance calls. Having seen the awareness of some animals to game camera shots, I'm not surprised an animal with digits hit the right button. Once. Multiple times, smart monkey.
That’s bananas.
Joe Biden’s nurse recovered her phone from his room, finding similar ill-framed, blank-stare selfies.
Do you see all those black pixels on the bottom of the second photo?
Monkey WAS doing something worse so the blacked it out.
There was a case, a long time ago before consumer Internet and digital cameras, when a photographer went to Africa, set up cameras that would be triggered by wild life, and made his first big sale in some time.
Unfortunately for him, the animal rights people got the idea that as the animal took the photos, the animal should be recipient of the royalties. I don’t remember if the whackos won, or if the photographer lost all his money defending himself, but if they won, that is a bad precedent for those hwo do similar.
That top picture looks like a good opening for Monster Quest.
I think they missed a few here on the West Coast, we have bigfoot.
He’s the Anthony Weiner of simians.
HAHAHAHA
Monkey see, monkey dial
She’s cute.
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