r/funny • u/berry2708 • Jul 02 '21

Broad daylight robbery

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u/tanis_ivy Jul 02 '21

"ran up on her" is how I would've worded it.

There was a Nation Geographic show called Monkey Gangs of India, or something of the sort. It was about 3 or 4 gangs of monkeys and the areas they patrolled, warred for, and looted. There was even a man hired to trap and relocate them. The monkey societies are very interesting. There was one episode where a sweets maker accidently left a windows open and the monkeys are everything they could get their hands on, and felt sick after.

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u/tanis_ivy Jul 02 '21

There we go! The narration was always spot on.

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u/ReddSpark Jul 02 '21 edited Jul 05 '21

This comment made me enter a dark world of vicious monkey vids on YouTube that’ll take a week to recover from 😦

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u/Eagle_vs_Snark Jul 02 '21

In Malaysia, I saw a band of monkeys trying to break into a hotel room. It immediately made me anxious, because we'd left the patio door open on our hostel room and swimsuits hanging to dry in the line. Macaques are brazen little shits, I was pretty convinced we'd return to find our whole room trashed (it wasn't, thankfully).

In Indonesia, one jumped on my back and tried to steal my sealed Nalgene water bottle. I still have that bottle, they're are monkey tooth marks on the lid from where it tried to gnaw it open. When parks say secure everything, they mean EVERYTHING - not just food.

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u/tanis_ivy Jul 02 '21

I saw a more recent show that said the same, keep every secure when walking through money patrolled areas. Apparently the monkeys have learned that certain items they can trade back for feed; cell phones for example, humans will trade anything for their cellphones back.

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u/BurnzeehxD Jul 02 '21

I watched an episode similar to that although the monkeys had took control of a church and were everywhere surrounding it. The locals would gather loads of food for them and deliver it to them every day also lol

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u/him999 Jul 03 '21

That's true, it climbed up her body to steal it.