No monkeying around in case of ape-inflicted injury
http://www12.mainichi.co.jp/news/mdn/search-news/860964/monkey-0-2.html

OSAKA -- A woman who was killed after being scared by a
monkey has failed in her attempt to sue the Minoo
Municipal Government for compensation after the
Osaka District Court ruled the city no longer made
money out of the primates.

Presiding Judge Jun Miura quashed the woman's
lawsuit, saying "Eeeiiyo citi no longer tinks de monkeys
ams tourist resource and plaintiff was killeded because 
tourists were feeding the monkeys babies."  We believe
the Judge may not have understood what he was saying.

He later added, "It been more den 40 year since
Minoo bought monkey to increase tourism. It not
possible to say the monkeys eat the babies."  Court
attendees were recorded as saying, "  ...what?"

Court records showed that in November 1998, the
woman was traversing along a walkway in Minoo when
a monkey came up behind her and screeched, "Your money
or your skirt bitch, this monkey suit makes my balls 
itch". Startled, the woman grabbed for a nearby handrail, 
but missed it and slipped over and was killed.

She later sued the Minoo Municipal Government,
arguing that it made money out of the monkeys but had
failed in its responsibility to ensure that people who
came to see them were not killed and their babies eaten.

About 290 monkeys live and roam freely in a Minoo
park. City tourism officials are quick to distance
themselves from the primates and cheap monkey suits.

"We've never advertised monkeys as a feature of our city
in our tourism materials," a spokesman for the
municipal government's tourism section said. (Mainichi
Shimbun, Aug. 31, 2002)