Stressed Singaporeans crack down on thieving monkeys

Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 2/19/07re | Gillian Murdoch

[NormsRevenge]

A monkey sits on the roof of a house at a residential estate bordering a nature reserve in Singapore February 10, 2007. Other Asian countries have set up special feeding areas for their urban monkeys, but Singapore is backing an all-out ban on monkey-feeding and stiff fines for offenders. (Vivek Prakash/Reuters)

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The macacas strike again. Last time, they stole Senator George Allen from us.

[davisfh]

Shoot, shovel, shup-up!!

[FLOutdoorsman]

Interesting article, I live about 3 km from the a Reserve here in Singapore.

They do come up to the houses and such and grab the garbage and such.

But nothing more than coons and possums do back home. But Singapore does have the common use solution of heavy fines tacked on the other with Big Brother techniques of cameras and such to stop the Monkey feeding.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

"Take your stinking paws off my cake, you damn dirty apes!"

[LibKill]

I suppose that it's petty of me, even spiteful, but....

I can't help but wish I could 'give' a bunch of these monkeys to every eco-nut I ever met. They could live with monkeys in their home for a while.

He-heh.

[Nachoman]

Will Singaporeans resort to spanking their monkeys?

[Mr. Mojo]

"Killing them is not the same as for other animals," Professor Peter Ng, Director of the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity said. "Even for the most hardened soul."

CCI Stingers.

[Jaysun]

We had a problem with snakes eating our eggs on the farm when I was a kid. My Great grandmother suggested that we put several eggs out with fish hooks inside, and tie the hooks to something nearby with fishing line. Within a week we had three BIG sonsabiches - it still gives me the willies.

Something similar needs to be done about the monkeys. Feed them antifreeze or something.

[jws3sticks]

[Revolting cat!]

Let's steer this aimless thread a bit:

If there was evolution, why are there still monkeys?

[RichInOC]

Well, they do have provisions for caning minor criminals. I suppose it's not all that far a leap from that to spanking their monkeys.

[Blackirish]

I have a friend who just got back from over there and told me they snag tourists cameras run up a tree and won't give it back till you give them something.....smart little #%%@!!!

[rlmorel]

When I was a kid, I lived in the Philippines (Subic Bay) and there were a boatload of monkeys there. Not the pretty chimp kind...they looked more like baboons with BIG canines.

We all used to feed them, they would come around to each house on the edge of the jungle, 15 or 20 of them.

My mom used to have a friend who would raise a special flag on the flagpole beside her house (each house had one) during the mid-afternoon, when it was cocktail time. All the wives would see it go up, and go over to the house for a drink.

One day, they were over there drinking, and the monkeys came through. My mother's friend said "Watch this" and grabbed a wooden banana out of a bowl of wooden fruit. She opened the door to the backyard, and threw the wooden banana in the middle of the group of monkeys. A short scuffle ensued, and the big bull monkey walked away with the wooden banana.

He let out a loud screech, and ran up the back steps at my mom and her friend. They barely got into the house and shut the door, when the monkey ran down the stairs, climbed a tree next to a huge picture window, went out on a branch near the window and began pounding the wooden banana against the glass while my mom and her friend cowered in there just waiting for it to break!

Not...nice...monkeys!

[LibKill]

"Killing them is not the same as for other animals," Professor Peter Ng, Director of the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity said. "Even for the most hardened soul. When you look in a monkey's face, you see your face in the mirror."

Um, no. I see a hairy theiving monkey. I could kill these little buggers all day and all night.

I wonder if I could get a job as a pest control expert there?

[Farmer Dean]

They'll end up paying a fine for that too.

[Redbob]

Maybe we could send them Rudy, to help them take back their streets.

It would be whatcha call a "win-win"...

[M-cubed]

armed staff with brooms <<<<<......LMAO!!!!!...Barretta's or Browning's?....Long handle or short?...Walnut or composite?...scopes or open sights??...Hand checked or machine?....Need more info to complete the wonderful mental image *G*

[Cicero]

Kipling had these monkeys typed in The Jungle Book.

This is the cry of the Banderlog: "It's so, it's so, it must be so. We all say so, so it must be so."