Monkeys Terrorize Government Buildings

Posted By Blackfive

No. I'm not talking about the protesters again. And this isn't another tirade about the Clinton administration:

"...it's no surprise to find government buildings overrun with monkeys."

Frank J.'s worst nightmare. Well, at least, he's not in India right now.

Monkeys Terrorize India Workers, Tourists

"But the officials who work there are fed up. They've been bitten, robbed and otherwise tormented by monkeys that ransack files, bring down power lines, screech at visitors and bang on office windows."

"Last year the monkeys made their presence felt by hanging from window ledges and screeching at reporters arriving for a news conference with visiting U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld."

Now, doesn't that sound like the protesters? But it gets better...

"In the latest effort, a monkey relocation initiative, 400 monkeys have been caught at Raisina Hill in the past year and moved to a holding area on the outskirts of New Delhi to await their return to forests in neighboring states, said Madan Thapliyal, a municipality spokesman.

But governments of those states have so far refused to take the furry exiles, saying they have more than enough of their own.

Maneka Gandhi, daughter-in-law of the late Indian leader Indira Gandhi and an independent lawmaker in the lower house of India's Parliament, believes the monkeys should be left in peace.

Gandhi, an animal rights advocate, has already managed to halt a New Delhi program to spay and neuter stray dogs, saying it was cruel.

She claims that captured macaques, despite their holiness to Hindus, have been given to laboratories for experimentation or have died in their holding area cages. They were "relocated to monkey heaven," she said."

Relocated to monkey heaven? Heh. That's my new saying. "Hey, Sean Penn, I am relocating you to Monkey Heaven."

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Monkeys Terrorize Government Buildings

No. I'm not talking about the protesters again. And this isn't another tirade about the Clinton administration:

"...it's no surprise to find government buildings overrun with monkeys."

Frank J.'s worst nightmare. Well, at least, he's not in India right now.

Monkeys Terrorize India Workers, Tourists

"But the officials who work there are fed up. They've been bitten, robbed and otherwise tormented by monkeys that ransack files, bring down power lines, screech at visitors and bang on office windows."

"Last year the monkeys made their presence felt by hanging from window ledges and screeching at reporters arriving for a news conference with visiting U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld."

Now, doesn't that sound like the protesters? But it gets better...

"In the latest effort, a monkey relocation initiative, 400 monkeys have been caught at Raisina Hill in the past year and moved to a holding area on the outskirts of New Delhi to await their return to forests in neighboring states, said Madan Thapliyal, a municipality spokesman.

But governments of those states have so far refused to take the furry exiles, saying they have more than enough of their own.

Maneka Gandhi, daughter-in-law of the late Indian leader Indira Gandhi and an independent lawmaker in the lower house of India's Parliament, believes the monkeys should be left in peace.

Gandhi, an animal rights advocate, has already managed to halt a New Delhi program to spay and neuter stray dogs, saying it was cruel.

She claims that captured macaques, despite their holiness to Hindus, have been given to laboratories for experimentation or have died in their holding area cages. They were "relocated to monkey heaven," she said."

Relocated to monkey heaven? Heh. That's my new saying. "Hey, Sean Penn, I am relocating you to Monkey Heaven."

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