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Thai town maddened by marauding monkeys launches plan to lock them up and send them away
AP ^ | 5/24/24 | Jerry Harmer

Posted on 06/02/2024 10:45:34 AM PDT by DallasBiff

LOPBURI, Thailand (AP) — A Thai town, run ragged by its ever-growing population of marauding wild monkeys, launched an offensive against the simian raiders on Friday, using trickery and ripe tropical fruit.

Several high-profile cases of monkey-human conflict recently convinced authorities in Lopburi in central Thailand that they had to reduce the animals’ numbers.

If all goes well, most will end up behind bars, before starting a new life elsewhere.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: monkeys; thailand
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I know I will get in trouble, but will BLM start saying Thais are racist?
1 posted on 06/02/2024 10:45:34 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

I was about to say all the monkeys would have to do is rebrand themselves as Antifa and it would be clear sailing.


2 posted on 06/02/2024 10:47:26 AM PDT by Stosh
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To: DallasBiff

Must. Resist. Temptation.


3 posted on 06/02/2024 10:49:33 AM PDT by Right Brother (Pray for God's intervention to stop UMCRevMom's invasion of Free Republic.)
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To: Right Brother

Thailand?


4 posted on 06/02/2024 10:50:01 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DallasBiff

5.56 NATO ball will do wonders if they choose to do so!


5 posted on 06/02/2024 10:54:20 AM PDT by Tom Tetroxide
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To: DallasBiff

I can hear the voice of Charlton Heston right now “the bastards went and really did it “ if I have it wrong I hope someone gets the reference


6 posted on 06/02/2024 11:03:22 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: Right Brother

Too easy


7 posted on 06/02/2024 11:03:28 AM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: srmanuel

Close enough...I got it. “Damn them all to hell!”


8 posted on 06/02/2024 11:05:29 AM PDT by 6ppc (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act -George Orwell)
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To: DallasBiff

Was stationed at an air base not too far from there in 1972. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korat_Royal_Thai_Air_Force_Base


9 posted on 06/02/2024 11:09:09 AM PDT by abb
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To: DallasBiff

Many marauding monkeys make much misery meddling and moping morosely in Massachusetts.


10 posted on 06/02/2024 11:12:55 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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I can hear the voice of Charlton Heston right now “the bastards went and really did it “ if I have it wrong I hope someone gets the reference

"TAKE YOUR STINKIN' PAWS OFF ME YOU DAMN DIRTY APE!!"

11 posted on 06/02/2024 11:14:03 AM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker (For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard., -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4)
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To: DallasBiff

Good luck with that.

Shoot them instead.


12 posted on 06/02/2024 11:20:26 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: DallasBiff

Went there for Operation Cobra Gold in the mid-90’s. Those monkey were everywhere then, and we were told not to mess with them because the locals believed the souls of lost loved ones existed in the monkeys, or they were reincarnated as monkeys are something like that.
1 did in my platoon got bit and had to get rabies shots, another guy had bought a bunch of stuff and a monkey ran up behind him and stole his bag, and scooted up to the roof of a building. Proceeded to absolutely rip apart everything he had bought. He stood there cursing at it. 😂
Stupid monkeys!


13 posted on 06/02/2024 11:25:53 AM PDT by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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To: DallasBiff

They still calling them monkeys? A disease had to be renamed because it contained the word “monkey” for fear of offending someone - or the monkeys, maybe.

It’s all insanity.


14 posted on 06/02/2024 11:31:30 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Voltaire: To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.)
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"Thailand?"

LOPBURI, Thailand (AP) — A Thai town, run ragged by its ever-growing population of marauding wild monkeys, launched an offensive against the simian raiders on Friday, using trickery and ripe tropical fruit.

Several high-profile cases of monkey-human conflict recently convinced authorities in Lopburi in central Thailand that they had to reduce the animals’ numbers.

15 posted on 06/02/2024 11:35:05 AM PDT by TexasGator
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“After our operation is over,” Chamroen said, “I will do a big cleaning across the town and paint all the buildings to regain the faith of the people.”

To read between the lines is to see that it was much more than a passing fling.

16 posted on 06/02/2024 11:42:26 AM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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To: abb

I was at Korat RTAFB at the same time. Assigned to flight surgeons office ncic. I remember that there was a monkey problem at that time also. You could hear them screeching all along the flight line area.


17 posted on 06/02/2024 11:42:41 AM PDT by barryselby
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To: 6ppc

Yes, and it’s funny in this instance.


18 posted on 06/02/2024 11:46:40 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: Ol' Dan Tucker

Thank you for getting the reference even if I butchered it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDLS12_a-fk

The clip I butchered.


19 posted on 06/02/2024 11:51:47 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: 6ppc

The clip I butchered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDLS12_a-fk


20 posted on 06/02/2024 11:52:15 AM PDT by srmanuel
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