Oops the monkey escaped

[minsue]

You know, headline writers must have been giggling like mad when this story came out. It's just too easy.

Oops the monkey flies the coop
Primate on the lam from Roanoke zoo

ROANOKE, Virginia (AP) -- A Japanese monkey aptly named Oops bolted from the Roanoke city zoo Sunday, sparking a park-wide shutdown as staff searched the surrounding forest, where they could hear her in the trees.

The 20-pound Japanese macaque and her family were being moved from their holding cells to the exhibit for routine feeding and cleaning when she got away Sunday morning, said David Jobe, education curator at Mill Mountain Zoo.

She was still on the run Monday morning.

"We hope that because they're active in the daytime, she slept last night and woke up this morning hungry," Jobe said. "We hope to take advantage of a hungry monkey."

At 11, Oops is the youngest of four so-called snow monkeys at the zoo. The furry, light brown monkey with the red face got her name because the others were not expected to reproduce.

Jobe said he believes she is staying in the forest so she can be in earshot of her family. It's her first trip out of the zoo, and while the staff hadn't seen her since Sunday morning, they heard her throughout the day Sunday as they searched in the forest that surrounds the zoo, he said.

"Part of our concern for her is that it's the first time she's ever been anywhere else and we're sure she's frightened," Jobe said.

The four-acre zoo, which sits on a mountain inside a Roanoke city park, had never had an escape from its grounds in its 55 years until Sunday, Jobe said.

At some point while the monkeys were being shifted, either a zoo employee made a mistake or a piece of equipment malfunctioned, Jobe said.

Both the zoo and park were closed on one of the busiest weekends of the year for the search. About 75,000 people usually visit the zoo each year.

"Hopefully it will work to our advantage that she escaped alone," Jobe said, adding that if she were with another monkey they would be more apt to explore.

He urged anyone who sees the macaque to call 911 and not try to capture her, because she could be dangerous if she feels threatened.

Japanese macaques, native to Japan, are typically 2 to 4 feet long and have relatively short tails.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Oops goes the monkey!

 

[kiwiwolf]

LMAO... great start to my day.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

I love the brief description, just in case you're not sure if the monkey you saw roaming around Virginia was the same one that escaped from the zoo.

 

[carsonshepherd]

I'm worried about the monkey.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Bad monkey!!!
Spank, spank, spank!!!

 

[minsue]

I'm worried about the monkey.

So'm I, honestly. I just can't get over the name. And I can't get over the line, "We hope to take advantage of a hungry monkey." It's so wrong.

 

[neonlyte]

This just in from the Press Association

MONKEY SAYS ESCAPE IS LEGITIMATE PROTEST
In an exclusive interview it can be revealed the monkey escape from Roanoke Zoo was no accident.

'I've been planning the protest for weeks.' Say's the monkey. 'It was planned to coincide with what is usually the Zoo's most busy weekend, my protest was designed to hit them in the pocket. It is the only way to get the 'animals' to take notice.

I strenuously object to the ridiculous name of 'Oop's' pinned to the enclosure and I object even stronger to the crude and disgusting commentary fed to the public explaining why the name was given. The fact that my parents hadn't bred offspring is because you bastards had fucking cameras on them all the time. How would you like it Jobe - what kind of fucking name is that by the way - if cameras were filming you and Milly all the time? Would little Dave have come along? Or the twins?

Further more, on behalf of our group we strongly protest to the species name 'so-called snow monkey'! I mean What The Fuck - you lock us up and can't even decide what type of monkey we are. I suppose it's OK 'cos we're Japanese - some of you guy's never forget the fucking war. Time moves on - get real.

And what the fuck is this about me weighing 20lbs! Jobe you big fat git - stop eating the burgers and eat what you feed us or I'll start broadcasting about that little something you begged me to keep quite about. Yes... you know what I mean, and I'm not doing it again for fucking banana.

Whilst we're on about personal traits - what's all this 'relatively short tail' bollocks. Relative to what? I don't see any visitors with tails, ok the occassional dog, but if you're talking about that little old tail Jobe keeps waving about, 'Honey I'm surprised you can even feel it'.

These are my terms for returning:
My name is HOTIC - it's Japanese for 'Her Of The Immaculate Conception' - pronounced
Hoyyy tic.
We want nectarines on Tuesdays and Saturdays
No more Walmart grapes - half the damn things are rotten
And - no more cameras in the breeding pens.'

 

[Huckleman2000]

Neon's post -

 

[Antfarmer77]

He'll be easy to recognize...he'll be carrying a partially charred flag

 

[carsonshepherd]

Bad monkey!!!
Spank, spank, spank!!!

Spanking the monkey is your speciality.

 

[carsonshepherd]

This just in from the Press Association

Heee

 

[Bizkit_Writer]

Its probably protesting like in Neon's post and its crazy name Oops yeah thats different