Monkeys kill Delhi deputy mayor
The deputy mayor of the Indian capital Delhi died on Sunday after being attacked by a horde of wild monkeys.
SS Bajwa suffered serious head injuries when he fell from the first-floor terrace of his home on Saturday morning trying to fight off the monkeys.
The city has long struggled to counter its plague of monkeys, which invade government complexes and temples, snatch food and scare passers-by.
The High Court demanded the city find an answer to the problem last year.
Solution elusive
One approach has been to train bands of larger, more ferocious langur monkeys to go after the smaller groups of Rhesus macaques.
The city has also employed monkey catchers to round them up so they can be moved to forests.
But the problem has persisted.
Culling is seen as unacceptable to devout Hindus, who revere the monkeys as a manifestation of the monkey god Hanuman, and often feed them bananas and peanuts.
Urban development around the city has also been blamed for destroying the monkeys' natural habitat.
Mr Bajwa, a member of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is survived by his wife and a son, according to the Press Trust of India news agency.
As awesome as it is, I think the act of fighting deadly monkey swarms with swarms of larger monkeys is putting my faith in humanity into the negatives.
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Oh wow, this is so totally Cane Toads in Queensland. Only even more insane. In fact, this really is completely goddamn nutty. That's really all we can say on the matter.
Delhi doesn't get a decent winter. Temps in India in the winter are usually above freezing (until you get to the higher latitudes and/or altitudes, but that's a given).
Still, that's a pretty awesome assassination by the Animal Kingdom.
Phantasee wrote:Delhi doesn't get a decent winter. Temps in India in the winter are usually above freezing (until you get to the higher latitudes and/or altitudes, but that's a given).
Still, that's a pretty awesome assassination by the Animal Kingdom.
I think you just missed the Simpsons reference.
That's some crazy stuff right there. I thought NYC was bad for having killer amounts of pigeons. At least they don't try and kill you. They just shit on everything.
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This is going to end fantastically well. Once they introduce tigers to kill the new monkeys.
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I can only imagine what Tim Bedore would say on Tuesday.
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loomer wrote:This is going to end fantastically well. Once they introduce tigers to kill the new monkeys.
It won't be long until someone unleases a massive genetically engineered Python into the streets to kill off the killer-apes who have sinced begun riding tigers around.
And then massive mongooses, and then giant eagles, and finally, giant nerve gas.
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loomer wrote:And then massive mongooses, and then giant eagles, and finally, giant nerve gas.
You fool! You should know by now that the only thing that can kill a giant genetically engineered snake is another giant genetically engineered snake. Always.
Of course, there are a lot of logistical problems for that one.
Turns out that a five way cross over between It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the Ali G Show, Fargo, Idiocracy and Veep is a lot less funny when you're actually living in it.
Superman wrote:I'd think they could come up up a better plan than, "hey, I know! Let's get BIGGER monkeys!" What happens when those monkeys turn on the silly humans?
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Covenant wrote:You fool! You should know by now that the only thing that can kill a giant genetically engineered snake is another giant genetically engineered snake. Always.
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I can see this problem slowly migrating up the Simian evolutionaly ladder until it reaches, well... Us.
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Pelranius wrote:Maybe they could try sterilizing the monkeys?
Of course, there are a lot of logistical problems for that one.
That does not work at all with deer populations, while being monstrously expensive, it sure as hell wont work on monkeys with a much higher population density.
His Divine Shadow wrote:If the got a monkey problem, why can't they just go around and shoot the monkeys until they are dead?
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"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
Covenant, you wouldn't happen to be a Dominions 3 player, would you? That game has a nation of monkeys who ride tigers into battle and is based on Indian mythology...
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Edi wrote:Covenant, you wouldn't happen to be a Dominions 3 player, would you? That game has a nation of monkeys who ride tigers into battle and is based on Indian mythology...
I am indeed! Kaliasa. I actually saw you on those forums before, you were always quite helpful. ;D So, I suppose, in a broader sense, a horde of monkeys could be killed by a Wyrm as I stated, or perhaps by a legion of Aesir. I didn't know that Kaliasa actually rode Tigers though. They're not ideal mounts after--once you get on the back of a tiger, it's rather hard to get back off.
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