Long-feared monkey uprising underway

This is only tangentially related to sports, but it’s far too important to ignore.

South African baboons can now open car doors and have taken to raiding unlocked cars for food. Experts fear it will get worse when the World Cup hits Cape Town in 2010.

The most baffling quote in the article:

“The perception is that the baboons are harmless and they’re not. They’re wild animals.”

Wait, who perceives baboons as harmless? It’s not like they’re cute little monkeys. Lock your damn doors.

2 thoughts on “Long-feared monkey uprising underway

  1. I lived in Cape Town for three months in 2006, and the baboons on the Cape Peninsula were remorseless. People would tell me stories of baboons breaking into their homes, going into their refrigerators.

    There is a national park on the south end of the peninsula where visitors have to take real precautions because of them. I ate lunch outside with two other people there, which was ill-advised. A baboon came at me at top speed, and lept onto a picnic table where we were eating. My friend threw a sandwich at him, almost as a reflex. He snatched it out of the air and ran off. But others soon followed him to come after the rest of our lunch.

    They are not to be trifled with.

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