GUWAHATI, India (AFP) - Troupes of monkeys are out of control in India's northeast, stealing mobile phones and breaking into homes to steal soft drinks from refrigerators, lawmakers in the region have complained.
"Monkeys are wreaking havoc in my constituency by taking away mobile phones, toothpastes, sipping coke after opening the refrigerators," Hiren Das told Assam state's assembly.
He said the primates were "even slapping women who try to chase them".
"It is a cause of serious concern in my area, with more than 1,000 such simians turning aggressive by the day," fumed Goneswar Das, another legislator representing Raha in eastern Assam.
Assam's wildlife minister, Rockybul Hussain, said the state government has formed a panel to study the problem.
Because of shrinking forest cover, monkeys have increasingly moved into cities elsewhere in India as well.
Last week, around two dozen people were hurt after monkeys rampaged through a New Delhi neighbourhood.
Last month, the deputy mayor of Delhi died when he fell from his balcony after being attacked by monkeys.
Efforts to drive out the animals is complicated by the fact that devout Hindus view them as an incarnation of Hanuman, the monkey god who symbolises strength.
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Full Version: Thieving monkeys 'out of control' in northeast India
Takes me back to my days as a kid in ITC-BPL. I used to hit the monkeys with folded paper & a rubber band when they used to come near my house lol. Did have some close calls a few times though 
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Does that mean India will soon become the Land of the Apes?
read about it in the paper a couple of days ago. this is embarrassing.
QUOTE(resilientone @ Nov 21 2007, 02:59 AM) 
read about it in the paper a couple of days ago. this is embarrassing.
Why is it embarassing?
so they don't or cannot hurt the monkeys?
crisis that humans are adding to the earth that is dying...yet it must be done....
QUOTE(ACMILAN1983 @ Nov 21 2007, 02:54 AM)
Why is it embarassing?
only in the sense that the problem is not under control. i hope the problem is contained soon. btw, i do not advocate killing animals to resolve the issue.
QUOTE(resilientone @ Nov 21 2007, 03:24 PM)
only in the sense that the problem is not under control. i hope the problem is contained soon. btw, i do not advocate killing animals to resolve the issue.
Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherfu-king monkeys on this motherfu-king planet!
If I lived there, I would create an insurgency and use monkeys as a weapon.
Humans are eating into wildlife habitats, these things are bound to happen. Monkeys are a real big menace bad luck if anyone runs into them when monkeys are upto some mischief. 
hehe monkeys
at least they don't anyone as in new delhi 
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