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Madison Police Capture Wanted Monkey
- Mon 13th August 2007, 9:15 am
MADISON, Wis. -
Authorities captured a diaper-wearing monkey who led them on a downtown search after biting a womans thumb entirely off.
The 20-year-old woman reported being bitten on the thumb as she tried to pet the animal in it`s pampers early Wednesday.
The woman was walking by Stone Monkey in a Diaper Club, a popular nightclub, where a man had the monkey on a leash inside its beer garden. People walking by were petting the monkey, who was wearing a white diaper.
But the monkey bit the woman, who suffered four small punctures on her thumb, which was found later, still in the mouth of the monkey, police said.
The bite sent the woman to the hospital, where a physician said the monkey should be found so that it could be quarantined to determine if it has a disease.
By 7:15 a.m., police found the man and the monkey. But the man appeared to be made of stone, upon further investigation it was verified that he was in fact a statue. Upon even further investigation it was found that there was in fact a monkey on the end of his stone
leash who was also made entirely of stone. The womans thumb (complete with teeth marks) were found within the mounkeys slightly opened mouth. The 20-year-old woman who was "bit" apparently accidentally stuck her finger in the mouth of the monkey while trying to pet
it in the pampers and upon feeling one of the sharp stone teeth jerked back wildly and ripped her thumb off in it`s mouth.
Police issued a warning to the public of the foot-tall stone monkey statue with a long prehensile tail: "It is now on the lam, presumably still in the State Street area."
About seven hours later, the monkey was captured and taken into custody downtown to be quarantined for 10 days, where it collected dust in the evidence room, police said.