Codename: Monkey

wind2000 · Oct 22, 2007

Wild monkey attack blamed for Indian official's death
Last Updated: Monday, October 22, 2007 | 3:48 PM ET
CBC News
Wild monkeys reportedly set upon New Delhi's deputy mayor while he was reading on his balcony Saturday, causing the politician to fall to his death while he grappled with the horde.

S.S. Bajwa, 52, officially died of "serious head injuries" sustained when he lost his footing and plunged from his first-floor terrace.

But family members blamed the simians — protected in the city because Hindus consider them sacred — for killing the businessman and Delhi vice-president for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Times of India reported.

Bajwa, who was elected deputy mayor in April, passed away Sunday in the intensive care unit at a local hospital. He is survived by a wife and a son.

His death underscored what some Delhi residents have complained is becoming a citywide monkey problem.

It was not the first incident in which the revered monkeys have menaced citizens. They have been known to bite unsuspecting people and snatch away food.

Monkeys in the Indian capital are free to roam government buildings and temples because of their religious significance to Hindus. The Hindu deity Hanuman, the monkey god, symbolizes strength in Hinduism.

Meanwhile, animal-rights activists have blamed urban sprawl for taking over so much of the primates' natural habitat that they end up migrating to the city.

In an effort to curb the problem, city authorities are training a larger, fiercer breed of predatory monkey — the langur — to frighten and pick off the smaller, more frenzied Rhesus macaques. Over the years, the city has also employed monkey catchers to relocate the Rhesus macaques to forests.
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http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/10/22/monkey-attack.html

i guess they value monkeys more than human lives. <_<

chi_man · Oct 22, 2007

lol wtf.... I thought that only cows were sacred.... but monkeys too.... those hindus are quite weird people... caring more about monkeys than humans

robsh · Oct 22, 2007

ahha City of the Apes
how anyone accidentally fell off the balcony retard man, wot a monkey busines they got in India
well arent human closest related to monkey?

Flames · Oct 22, 2007

Serious...if I see a monkey starting to annoy me, I would attack it the first thing...>.>

MissCheekS · Oct 23, 2007

lol....maybe someone disliked the guy and trained monkeys to do it...
the perfect murder!

lookout · Oct 23, 2007

I swear, I didn't do it!

Taxloss · Oct 23, 2007

^lol, you better go hiding now -lol

But some monkeys can be quite agressive like in the article or at least brutal as I've seen how they cooperate to pull a tourists bag with food but the dude was so stupid to pull back instead of letting it go.

xmichelly · Oct 23, 2007

why don't they just lock their doors? so the monkeys can roam in places that are open or something ... lol

MissAngieCheekS said: ↑

lol....maybe someone disliked the guy and trained monkeys to do it...
the perfect murder!
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haha no one better get a monkey for angie

chickenutbread · Oct 24, 2007

so instead of creating a habitat or restricting a certain land space for monkeys they just create more? haha.

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