Simian Strife Stimulated by Anthropoid Sciolism
According to The Times of India, the deputy mayor of Delhi, S S Bajwa, was killed by a band of monkeys. Mr. Bawa apparently died this morning of head injuries after falling from the terrace of his house after being attacked by a group of monkeys. The city has long been plagued by monkeys attacking humans (remember Secretary Rumsfeld's trip to India in 2002?) for quite a while. Roving bands of Rhesus monkeys hav long invaded government complexes and temples and snatch food out of people's hands on the streets. The problem is exacerbated by large population of devout Hindus (who revere the monkeys as a manifestation of the monkey god Hanuman) providing them offerings of bananas and nuts.
Last year, India's High Court orderd the city to address the mounting problem. So the leaders of Delhi employed monkey catchers to roam the city with large nets (yeah, that same image you've got from cartoons of the proverbial dog catcher), but that didn't work. So what do they do? They created monkey mercenaries - they actually trained bands of larger, more aggressive Langur monekys to maraud the smaller Rhesus hordes. A municipal government is actually training (arming?) mercernary monkeys to cull little terrorist monkeys.... ok, this so surreal and reminiscent of human life my little head is about to spin off...