{"id":309,"date":"2006-02-01T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-01T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/?p=307"},"modified":"2006-02-01T12:05:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-01T19:05:00","slug":"attack-monkeys-attack-monkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2006\/02\/01\/attack-monkeys-attack-monkeys\/","title":{"rendered":"Attack monkeys? Attack monkeys!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The coolest news story, ever.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 Today the Paris Guardian reported on the hottest new trend in Parisian gang weaponry: attack monkeys. &#8220;They&#8217;re ultra-fashionable,&#8221; said Didier Lecourbe, a police officer from the depressed Paris suburb of Aubervilliers. &#8220;Now that the authorities have cracked down on pit bulls, Dobermans, and rottweilers, apes are becoming the new weapon of choice.&#8221; Imported illegally through Spain from Gibraltar, Morocco, and Algeria, the Barbary apes are known for their powerful limbs, sharp teeth, and short tempers; removed from their natural habitat, they can become highly aggressive, and their favored method of attack is to hurl themselves at people&#8217;s heads. Police believe as many as 500 Barbary apes have been smuggled into France in the past two years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to Jason for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/seattle\/Content?oid=5139\">the link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to think they got <a href=\"http:\/\/lacasacomics.blogspot.com\/2005_11_04_lacasacomics_archive.html\">the idea<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/lacasacomics.blogspot.com\/2005_11_09_lacasacomics_archive.html\">us<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coolest news story, ever. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 Today the Paris Guardian reported on the hottest new trend in Parisian gang weaponry: attack monkeys. &#8220;They&#8217;re ultra-fashionable,&#8221; said Didier Lecourbe, a police officer from the depressed Paris suburb of Aubervilliers. &#8220;Now that the authorities have cracked down on pit bulls, Dobermans, and rottweilers, apes are becoming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}