Stolen monkey
Apr 26th, 2008 by Kim
Earlier this week I was horrified to hear that some stupid ***hole stole a valuable prize monkey from our local zoo. Not only was this bad because this little monkey was just a baby, only three pounds and sick, but this particular monkey was on loan to our zoo from another zoo. The father of this monkey was brought over here to breed with the mother monkey. This type of monkey is extremely rare and they are trying to build up this population.
Thankfully yesterday the police got an anonymous tip that the little fellow was in a tote behind a dumpster. At least whoever stole the little guy, sort of gave him back. He was no worse for wear and he is now re-united with his parents and brother. I don’t think the police will ever find the person who stole him, but I really wish they would and then throw the book at them. Who ever is stupid and sick enough to steal a sick monkey really needs to pay the price.
Kim: You are right…that is a very “sick” person to do that. It sounds like some kind of “gang” initiation. It reminded me of an incident in Dallas couple years ago. A restaurant in N Dallas had a small statue on it’s counter that dated back for many years and as given to the restaurant owner for some strange reason. they had it on display just to show it off. Then one day it disappeared. But the magical thing was that part of it was caught on video. It was reported on the evening news about 10 times for the next several days. Fortunately the lady who stole it was partially shown in the video and the viewing audience saw her. Within a week the statue was returned annoymously in a paper sack.
I love going to zoos, they are some of my favorite places to take my daughter and to take photos. But I hate other people in the zoo because 9 out of 10 people are not respectful of the animals in the zoo. Zoo animals die more often from the zoo visitors than any other reason. They throw their garbage into the enclosures, taunt the animals and do other nasty things. These people should be put in zoos so that they can see what it feels like to have some slack jawed yokel banging on the glass for them to ‘wake up’ ‘do something’. Some people make me sick.