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How the TSA Plans On Inspecting Your Monkey
The uncertainty of what might happen to your service monkey at an airport security checkpoint won't keep you awake at night anymore, thanks to the TSA. They have issued an easy to follow list of how they will ensure your helper monkey won't go all Planet of the Apes on your flight. Some of the security techniques used to make sure your primate is not a terrorist include: "Security Officers will conduct a visual inspection on the service monkey and will coach the handler on how to hold the monkey during the visual inspection. The inspection process may require that the handler to take off the monkey's diaper as part of the visual inspection."
Touch it! Touch the monkey!
There is actually 1.75 trillion dollar roll out of monkey-sized body scanners. When the project is finished, you will no longer be required to remove your animal's diaper, but technicians may laugh at your monkey's banana.
When I traveled between the U.S. and Canada, it was typical for me to remove pet cat and guinea pig from carriers and carry them by hand through the metal detectors. Surprisingly, the cat had greater veterinary bill of health requirements than the guinea pig.
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Will they spank my monkey if he misbehaves? Or will I need to do that myself?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
I like all the sections that say "Security Officers have been trained to not _______". So you have a trained service monkey, and it has to meet up with a trained higher order primate at a checkpoint!
Of course, "higher order primate" might give a bit too much credit to the TSA goon squad, but they certainly are in fact trained animals. Sadly, like many monkeys, they do occasionally lift shiny objects from innocent bystanders....
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I have been waiting YEARS to use that one.
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"And now is the part of the show where we dance"
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You can teach a monkey to do a lot of useful things, except care that you don't want it to poop everywhere.
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I must have lost a few days somewhere along the line...
This ain't rocket surgery.
...will the monkey blend ?
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The diaper serves as a handy carrying case for the monkey, in case they have to poo now, but won't have anyone nearby they want to fling it at until later. If your helper monkey has some sort of grudge against TSA agents, perhaps because of being treated as a terrorist just because it has hair on its face, it's highly recommended you change the monkey's diaper before going through security.
http://www.monkeyhelpers.org/
Wow. Seriously - wow.
Pathological kinda promises Path + Logical - but instead, you get stuck with pathetic.
obviously, service monkeys are important for people physically incapable of flinging their own poo.
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Does that mean TSA agents will eat ticks if they find any, and does your monkey have to return the inspection favor?
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Ahh yes. In old country, Monkey inspects You.
I was thinking on this too, we don't have to put diapers on dogs or cats. But it just must be the "nature of the beaste" to not be easy to toilet train. It may simply be the case that monkeys don't have sufficient warning, control, and capacity to "hold it" if they have to go. Sort of like having to pull over every 45 minutes when you're on a car trip with a four year old passenger. The diaper is probably not their regular choice for the monkey, but more to prevent a mess if things get unpredictable.
And then there's the whole thing about monkeys (chimps mostly) entertaining themselves by flinging poo. The picture looked like a macaque, I don't recall hearing about them flinging poo at the zoos like you hear from time to time with the chimps. And a macaque would make a much better service animal just for the small adult size. (chimps get big and very strong, some have been known to outright beat up their handlers)
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The full body scanners already accomplish this. They can even scan beavers and sweater-puppies, so I hear.
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(chimps get big and very strong, some have been known to outright beat up their handlers)
Or eat their face [NSFL]
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