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Postby sublight » Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:43 pm

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From CNN: Monkey triggers Tokyo subway chaos

I haven't heard jack about this on the news here. Did CNN get hoaxed?

TOKYO, Japan (CNN) -- A monkey stopped morning commuters in their tracks at one of Tokyo's busiest subway stations this week, as it curiously peered down at them from its perch atop the departures and arrivals board.

Monday marked the third time a monkey has been spotted in the capital this month -- surprising, because the beasts usually live in the mountains and hills outside Tokyo, more than a two-hour train ride away from the city center.

In the end, the monkey got away. But it was enough to make Japanese media go bananas.

A monkey was spotted in metropolitan Tokyo's Koganei city on August 12 and in Setagaya on Monday.
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Postby Mulboyne » Wed Aug 20, 2008 10:21 pm

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Postby GomiGirl » Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:42 pm

This was all over the J-news today and it got the whole office talking. We were all wanting to head out and look for the cheeky monkey and help him find his way home. (Our office is in Harajuku - the last known sighting of the monkey.)
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Postby Iraira » Thu Aug 21, 2008 12:27 am

GomiGirl wrote:This was all over the J-news today and it got the whole office talking. We were all wanting to head out and look for the cheeky monkey and help him find his way home. (Our office is in Harajuku - the last known sighting of the monkey.)


Check and see if he dropped off his resume. He probably just wants a job at your company. C'mon, GG, give a simian a break.
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Postby baka tono » Thu Aug 21, 2008 12:32 am

I saw this story on the news too and was cheering for the monkey. Whereever scientists are studying the intelligence of monkeys verus humans they can score one 1 for the monkey 0 for the zillion J cops.
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Postby alicia454 » Thu Aug 21, 2008 12:39 am

Here are some videos of the monkey. It is soooo cute! Nice to see it give the J-Cops the slip at the end. You wouldn't want to see the J-Cops extract a confession out of the poor thing in custody.
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They should make a JR advertisement with a trained monkey using a Suica card at a gate, and a caption that reads "easy enough for a monkey to use". That would be so funny.
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Postby Visitor K » Thu Aug 21, 2008 12:50 am

alicia454 wrote:They should make a JR advertisement with a trained monkey using a Suica card at a gate, and a caption that reads "easy enough for a monkey to use". That would be so funny.


speciest!
just joking. that would be a cute commercial.. just as long as they dont use the word CHANGE in there anywhere....
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Postby IkemenTommy » Thu Aug 21, 2008 12:55 am

Mulboyne wrote:Image

He's just chillin like a villain.

No need to tape off the entire area. Just bring the dart gun!
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Postby gomichild » Thu Aug 21, 2008 7:20 am

baka tono wrote:I saw this story on the news too and was cheering for the monkey. Whereever scientists are studying the intelligence of monkeys verus humans they can score one 1 for the monkey 0 for the zillion J cops.


I was cheering for the monkey too :cool:
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Postby Greji » Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:14 am

gomichild wrote:I was cheering for the monkey too :cool:


Me too! He sure made shinseki out of the cops...
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Postby xenomorph42 » Fri Aug 22, 2008 8:56 am

Greji wrote:Me too! He sure made shinseki out of the cops...
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I can't believe these bungling keystone cops can't catch "one cute little monkey"(not that I was hoping the little fellow would get caught)there were what...3000 cops or so, I mean, come on.

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Postby kurohinge1 » Fri Aug 22, 2008 9:07 am

Maybe he was a Suburban Trunk Money.

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Postby Greji » Fri Aug 22, 2008 10:24 am

xenomorph42 wrote:I can't believe these bungling keystone cops can't catch "one cute little monkey"(not that I was hoping the little fellow would get caught)there were what...3000 cops or so, I mean, come on.

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Monkey: 10

Cops: 0


I wouldn't go as far as saying cute, you obviously don't have them around your residence. I do and they are a pain in the arse. You can't leave anything outside that has a fragrance that could be construed as food or garbage. All trash pick-up points have to have monooki's or either the monkey's or tanuki will have the trash spread out over equivalent of about three city blocks in three seconds.

They raid gardens, rip up plants in the yard, devastate fruit trees and the like. They'll even come in your house if you leave a door open near any food. They have no frigging fear at all and are far from cute IMHO.
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Postby gomichild » Fri Aug 22, 2008 10:28 am

We need to start training them to be helper monkeys and use their skills for good and not evil.

Not sure what to do about the tanuki though....
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Postby Greji » Fri Aug 22, 2008 11:12 am

gomichild wrote:Not sure what to do about the tanuki though....


They already have their own agenda!
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Postby alicia454 » Fri Aug 22, 2008 2:20 pm

Greji wrote:I wouldn't go as far as saying cute, you obviously don't have them around your residence. I do and they are a pain in the arse. You can't leave anything outside that has a fragrance that could be construed as food or garbage. All trash pick-up points have to have monooki's or either the monkey's or tanuki will have the trash spread out over equivalent of about three city blocks in three seconds.

They raid gardens, rip up plants in the yard, devastate fruit trees and the like. They'll even come in your house if you leave a door open near any food. They have no frigging fear at all and are far from cute IMHO.
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Okay, I can see that they can be troublesome for people. (I would not want my garbage scattered all over.) But they are still quite CUTE TROUBLEMAKERS! Keep in mind that these monkeys and tanuki were living in Japan long before any humans! We humans just have to make some accommodations for them.
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Postby Gilligan » Fri Aug 22, 2008 2:32 pm

alicia454 wrote:Okay, I can see that they can be troublesome for people. (I would not want my garbage scattered all over.) But they are still quite CUTE TROUBLEMAKERS! Keep in mind that these monkeys and tanuki were living in Japan long before any humans! We humans just have to make some accommodations for them.


We have. They're called zoos. ;)
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Postby xenomorph42 » Fri Aug 22, 2008 2:49 pm

alicia454 wrote:Okay, I can see that they can be troublesome for people. (I would not want my garbage scattered all over.) But they are still quite CUTE TROUBLEMAKERS! Keep in mind that these monkeys and tanuki were living in Japan long before any humans! We humans just have to make some accommodations for them.


I wholeheartedly agree, love to live together in peace and harmony, but just in case, if it comes down to living with the cute critter or having to put a bullet....er, I mean dart, dart is what I meant and transferring it back, far, far back to the forest, than so be it.
As for the Tanuki, I'm from L.A. originally and when I was a teenager, I was chased by one that was for lack of words, very rabid(had the whole foam thing going on)so I know how vicious these guys can be.
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Postby Iraira » Fri Aug 22, 2008 3:33 pm

xenomorph42 wrote:As for the Tanuki, I'm from L.A. originally and when I was a teenager, I was chased by one that was for lack of words, very rabid(had the whole foam thing going on)so I know how vicious these guys can be.


Oh, shit dude, that was you? I'm sorry, I was stuck in my Halloween costume, and my idiot friend told me that if I put 4 Alka-Seltzer tablets and a handful of habaneros in my mouth, it might loosen the zipper. Well, anyway, I kinda freaked out and was running down the hillside when I saw this guy drinking a Mountain Dew. I figured that your tasty beverage would at least take care of the new set of problems I was experiencing.
Shit, I'm totally sorry, you musta been freaked, I mean, you dropped that strange pipe thing you were smoking out of and bolted like Usain.

I don't put strange things in my mouth anymore in order to loosen my zipper, so you can also get over these deep-rooted memories from which you wake up at night screaming. Amazing how small this world really is, ne.
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Postby Greji » Fri Aug 22, 2008 4:13 pm

alicia454 wrote:Okay, I can see that they can be troublesome for people. (I would not want my garbage scattered all over.) But they are still quite CUTE TROUBLEMAKERS! Keep in mind that these monkeys and tanuki were living in Japan long before any humans! We humans just have to make some accommodations for them.


That might be nice in a perfect world, but in a lot of places to include the mountains in west Tokyo, they have over-bred (over popluated), they carry diseases, they have been known to attack, claw and bite children on the way to and from school. They destroy crops, scatter the trash, invade your space, kill small pets (cats and dogs) drop more turds than the all the dog walkers in Aoyama combined, but, they are cute.....

Because of my love for these cute little things, I have trained them. They will do a 90 degree turn any time they come near my property line and will come no closer. It only took a little TLC envolving my WHAM-O Slingshot and an assorted number of pachinko balls. They're cute, so they learn very fast......
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Postby IkemenTommy » Fri Aug 22, 2008 4:20 pm

Greji wrote:Because of my love for these cute little things, I have trained them. They will do a 90 degree turn any time they come near my property line and will come no closer. It only took a little TLC envolving my WHAM-O Slingshot and an assorted number of pachinko balls. They're cute, so they learn very fast......
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Yes, they learn to do tricks very fast
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Postby xenomorph42 » Sun Aug 24, 2008 12:07 am

Iraira wrote:Oh, shit dude, that was you? I'm sorry, I was stuck in my Halloween costume, and my idiot friend told me that if I put 4 Alka-Seltzer tablets and a handful of habaneros in my mouth, it might loosen the zipper. Well, anyway, I kinda freaked out and was running down the hillside when I saw this guy drinking a Mountain Dew. I figured that your tasty beverage would at least take care of the new set of problems I was experiencing.
Shit, I'm totally sorry, you musta been freaked, I mean, you dropped that strange pipe thing you were smoking out of and bolted like Usain.

I don't put strange things in my mouth anymore in order to loosen my zipper, so you can also get over these deep-rooted memories from which you wake up at night screaming. Amazing how small this world really is, ne.


I ain't the one to really hold a grudge. As for dropping the pipe....oops, I gotta stay more focused next time, thanks for the heads-up. You know us whacky-tabaki people.
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Postby Charles » Wed Oct 08, 2008 1:28 am

Monkey waiters in Japan

Oct 6 - Hard pressed to find good helping hands these days? Not bothered that these helping hands may not be human?
Then you may want to try hiring the same workers as used by the owners of the Japanese tavern Kayabukiya.
The local hangout just north of Tokyo employs a pair of Japanese monkeys called Yat-chan and Fuku-chan to serve their customers.

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Postby Gilligan » Wed Oct 08, 2008 6:52 am

Charles wrote:Monkey waiters in Japan

Oct 6 - Hard pressed to find good helping hands these days? Not bothered that these helping hands may not be human?
Then you may want to try hiring the same workers as used by the owners of the Japanese tavern Kayabukiya.
The local hangout just north of Tokyo employs a pair of Japanese monkeys called Yat-chan and Fuku-chan to serve their customers.

...more, including video...


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Postby Gilligan » Fri Oct 24, 2008 7:38 pm

Colbert chimes in on the monkey waiters.

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And a little something extra afterwards.
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