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Attack of the Evil Monkeys From Hell

Posted by kdawson on from the who's-wearing-the-pants dept.

grrlscientist writes "A new form of communication between wild vervet monkeys and humans is causing humans distress — and a collapse of their food supply. Approximately 300 vervet monkeys in Kenya are sexually harassing the women of a village so they can steal their crops. None of the attempts to discourage the monkeys has so far worked."

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  1. Family Guy warned us by ZachMG · · Score: 1, Funny

    i mean come on, we should have seen it coming, "theres a evil monkey in my closet"

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    1. Re:Family Guy warned us by BakaHoushi · · Score: 3, Funny

      If these monkeys were "in the closet," though, would they be going after WOMEN?

    2. Re:Family Guy warned us by schon · · Score: 4, Funny

      If these monkeys were "in the closet," though, would they be going after WOMEN? That's a pretty silly question - of course they would.

      It's the ones that have come out of the closet that wouldn't. :)
  2. Tit-for-Tat by pipingguy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Have they tried flinging feces at the monkeys yet?

    1. Re:Tit-for-Tat by Aqua+OS+X · · Score: 4, Funny

      No, just spanking.

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    2. Re:Tit-for-Tat by TheDreadSlashdotterD · · Score: 1, Funny

      One George W is enough. No more monkey human hybrids!

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    3. Re:Tit-for-Tat by spiderbitendeath · · Score: 3, Funny

      It's not nice to insult the monkeys like that.

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    4. Re:Tit-for-Tat by Hijacked+Public · · Score: 5, Funny

      I don't know about that. As I've been through Kenya and most of the surrounding area a few times it seem to me that the best solution would be the opposite of what most Slashdotters are proposing here.

      I say the Kenyan government should give the monkeys full human rights. Set aside an area of the country designated a monkey habitat and enshrine in law the monkeys' collective ownership of that land.

      Then announce to the Western world that a routine governmental survey has found something of great value on the monkey-land. Gold, oil, rhodium, manganese, pretty flowers. Anything that can be collected and sold will do. The rest will take care of itself.

      Before long armored divisions will start showing up to keep the peace. Machine gun bunkers will be built. Far overhead, out of sight of the monkeys, billion dollar airplanes will peer down throught their bombsights, trying to locate the laser the ground team is shining on a mudpile monkey hut so the bomber crew can precisely deliver a million dollar payload of explosives to eradicate the hut and all its occupants from the face of the earth.

      An opposing monkey faction would be developed by dangling the carrot of power in front of an influential but well liked monkey leader of a monkey splinter group. To this faction the West could provide weapons, in return for assurances that when power was consolidated the weapon providers could expect the favor to be repaid. We just want to see an end to the monkey terror, you see.

      But, with the other hand, the West could make sure that power never was consolidated. This way the monkeys would set themselves to the task of continually collecting whatever natural resource it was the West wanted, so they could afford a continual supply of weapons to fight a war that would never end.

      If that isn't a time and again proven effective method of monkey subordination I don't know what is.

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    5. Re:Tit-for-Tat by Borgschulze · · Score: 2, Funny

      This won't work, George Bush probably won't want to kill his own family.

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  3. Those aren't monkeys... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    they're phi sigma kappa pledges

  4. Subscribe the monkeys to Slashdot by Antique+Geekmeister · · Score: 4, Funny

    That way, they'll only watch porn all night and never actually lay a hand on anything female.

    1. Re:Subscribe the monkeys to Slashdot by psychicsword · · Score: 5, Funny

      I take offense to that just because I watch porn all night and never actually laid a hand on anything female doesn't mean I read slashdot... Oh wait

    2. Re:Subscribe the monkeys to Slashdot by Kojiro+Ganryu+Sasaki · · Score: 2, Funny

      What if they pick up programming?

  5. It all began when the monkeys got cable tv... by Telephone+Sanitizer · · Score: 4, Funny

    They've been watching BET.

  6. Youtube footage of the monkeys by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 1, Funny

    Someone managed to record the monkeys and upload the footage. Here's the url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj25gRwsZmE

  7. when arnt they going hungry? by Pvt.+Cthulhu · · Score: 5, Funny

    eat the monkeys. problem solved.

  8. the eco friendly solution by edwardpickman · · Score: 2, Funny

    300 female Vervet Monkeys in black teddies..

  9. MONKEYS! by falzer · · Score: 2, Funny

    TONIGHT WE DINE IN KENYA!

  10. Re:Not that hard of a problem to solve by aevan · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Some apes, it seems, are more equal than others."

  11. Ah, monkies... by NerveGas · · Score: 5, Funny


        Is there anything they do that ISN'T entertaining?

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  12. Re:reverse the gender roles by Clever7Devil · · Score: 5, Funny

    But the mens' favorite shows are on during peak farming hours.

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  13. Re:Someone didn't RTFA by doyoulikeworms · · Score: 2, Funny

    from TFA: "The monkeys grab their breasts, and gesture at us while pointing at their private parts."

    You try that at work and see what happens...

  14. Re:Not that hard of a problem to solve by SL+Baur · · Score: 3, Funny

    They can sanction the whole village and given current conditions in other places in Africa, one would suppose those monkeys have friends in high places in that country and I suppose a lot can happen in retaliation.

    After all, how did they learn to make rude human sexual gestures in the first place? Somebody taught them and TFA does say they are a protected species. Put two and two together and what do you get?

  15. WWTHAD? by Kaenneth · · Score: 5, Funny

    What Would The A-Team Do?

    First, to travel a long distance with B.A. by plane, he'd have to be tricked into taking a sedative, then loaded onto the plane.

    Hannibal and Face would be too busy sexually harrasing the women themselves to get serious for a while. Murdoc would 'get to know the enemy' by joining the monkeys, while B.A. would be pissed about getting tricked again.

    Inspired by the earlier drugging of B.A., Hannibal would come up with the plan to have Murdoc sleeping drug the monkeys while B.A. and Face Montage-Weld a specialized monkey-scooper truck, to load them on the plane. As they leave they drop the monkeys into the compound of the military dictator.

    (maybe I shouldn't port at 2 am)

  16. Re:Not that hard of a problem to solve by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Put two and two together and what do you get?

    The weirdest fucking /. post ever.

  17. More than the average number of arms? by bangzilla · · Score: 4, Funny

    "The monkeys grab their breasts, and gesture at us while pointing at their private parts...."
    So by my count that's two (2) hands to grab breasts, one (1) hand to gesture and one (1) hand to point at the privates. Total four (4) hands per monkey. Do these magical monkeys fly too?

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  18. Re:nay by Loligo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Gecko45? Is that you? God, I love the anti-guerilla counter-terrorist guys on the net. They're always fun.

    Yeah, well, I was an elite CIA Force Recon UDT Sniper Seal Yellow Beret (much cooler than those Green Beret pansies) with OSS doing black ops in the Argonne Forest just north of the Chosin Reservoir back in '84. I can't comment on which unit I was with or anything I actually did because it's so top secret the government will deny I was ever in the military, and you might get on the NSA's super-secret list if you even reply to this comment.

      -l

  19. Re:Not that hard of a problem to solve by HangingChad · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's a criminal offense to harm them.

    When it's a crime to hunt monkeys, then only criminals will have fried monkey for dinner.

    Eat the evidence.

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  20. Re:Not that hard of a problem to solve by th1nk · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dogs don't understand the law. Bring in a predator.

    I don't think it gets cold enough there to freeze the gorillas come wintertime.

  21. Re:"It's funny. Laugh". Assholes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    They're starving people? :|
    They're endangering babies? :\

    They're killing dogs!?!?!? NUKE THEM!!!!

  22. Re:So, shoot 'em. by iminplaya · · Score: 2, Funny

    A cattle prod would require that you approach the animal, possibly dangerous. Tasers are the answer

    After a while they would just associated the women with pain and stay clear.

    I don't know where to begin with that one. Are you suggesting...matrimony?

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  23. Re:New behavior? Mimicing humans is well observed. by pave_m · · Score: 2, Funny

    More to the point, if pandas start to steal food from humans (yes, I know they wouldn't, it is just an example), we wouldn't wipe them out as a 'pest'. You have to take into account the fact that pandas are critically endangered. That said, I believe vervet monkeys are far less endangered than pandas, so it might make sense to allow some reasonable action against them.
    Bad example. A panda would never sexually harass these women, 'cause that would make it a saaaad panda.
  24. Re:I for one by F4_W_weasel · · Score: 2, Funny

    Welcome!