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Monkey attacks leave 42 people injured in Japanese city: Adults and children are bitten and scratched in their homes
2022-07-26
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Japanese macaques are seen commonly across large parts of the country

  • But officials said the spate of attacks in Japan's Yamaguchi city was unusual

  • Adults and children have suffered wounds including scratches and bites

  • Officials - who are deploying tranquiliser guns - aren't even sure whether the attacks are the work of multiple monkeys or a single aggressive individual
Posted by:Skidmark

#13  ðŸ¥³
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-07-26 23:57  

#12  One Bad Injun, or, A Man of the West

An hombre, a dawg, and a drama!
A faux-leather saddle, a brahma,
A portrait: St. George
Sticks his lance down the gorge
Of an ass-draggin' mascot o' er... Bama.

Too flip, of course, for such a good story. Had a better one this morning but it's done a Kubla Khan on me.
Posted by: Pearl Spuling3206   2022-07-26 23:53  

#11  ^ After which James Gregory as Ursus blows up the earth!
Posted by: borgboy   2022-07-26 22:49  

#10  This is how it starts, then Charlton Heston ends up finding the Statue of Liberty half buried in future time.
Posted by: Super Hose   2022-07-26 12:22  

#9  monkey warfare the new woke gurilla warfare!
Posted by: Cholutle Thrans9751   2022-07-26 11:04  

#8  Is it cannibalism to eat a monkey?

Anymore than a raptor (eagle, hawk, falcon...) eating a pigeon?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-07-26 07:13  

#7  I once fought off a posse of these bastards while my dog tore out the innards of one he'd caught. I was sixteen or so. The whole neighbourhood just stood and watched like idiots. The things would swoop in and nip and swipe at us and I had just a cane staff to hit them with. At the end of it we both had multiple lacerations, there was blood everywhere, ours, the monkeys... all running together.

Killing a monkey in India is like, 'oh noze! You done gone killed god Hanuman!' And some activist type did shout something about 'now we must kill the dog too!'

Drenched in blood I gave them a look and they shut up.

Macaques are really scary to fight. It was like Aliens or Starship Troopers there for a while. They only retreated when they saw they couldn't help their guy anymore and he lay severed at the waist.

They're afraid of lemurs, or other higher order monkeys for some reason. So some communities keep their own trained lemurs to ward them off. I don't know how this works.
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-07-26 02:50  

#6  Is it cannibalism to eat a monkey?

If you got any funny ideas from the Temple of Doom, just say no.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2022-07-26 01:28  

#5   Is it cannibalism to eat a monkey?

Not exactly, but how badly do you want AIDS or Monkeypox?
Posted by: trailing wife   2022-07-26 00:55  

#4  Don't make a damn if you're hungry enough
Posted by: Chris   2022-07-26 00:33  

#3  Is it cannibalism to eat a monkey? It's kinda like eating your cousin thrice removed, so I guess it is OK in some jurisdictions.
Posted by: SteveS   2022-07-26 00:31  

#2  I wonder - do they taste like chicken?
Posted by: Raj   2022-07-26 00:25  

#1  The average guy could rip a macaque apart. Problem is, those bastards are quick as a snake
Posted by: Richard Aubrey   2022-07-26 00:20  

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