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The driver of the crashed truck reportedly told local law enforcement the monkeys were dangerous and "posed a threat to humans."

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Monkeys Escape, X-Outbreak, and Women’s Resistance

In today’s episode of “State of Current Affairs,” hosts Lillian Cauldwell, and Viki Esther Chang from Singapore, discuss a concerning incident where monkeys used in research have escaped the lab and are now potential disease carriers. Authorities warn that any interaction with these escapees could result in the spread of disease through bites or scratches. In other news, there’s a new,…

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Monkeys Escape, X-Outbreak, and Women’s Resistance

43 monkeys escaped a research facility in South Carolina after someone failed to lock a door. Police have set up traps and will be using thermal imaging to locate and secure the rhesus macaque primates. In the meantime, residents are warned to keep their windows and doors shut to avoid entrance!

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14 October - On the Run Part 3

The number of monkeys that have been loose in Chicago over the years is a lot higher than you’d think. While we don’t have an exact number of free range apes that have roamed the city through the centuries, we do have a few unique tales of their escapades, for better or (usually) worse.

The front picture today comes from an article in the Chicago Tribune from 1892, when Mr. Charley Champlin’s monkey decided to make a run for it. Charley Champlin was the son of George Champlin, a prominent businessman at the time, which is probably why this story got so much press. Feeling that his son had everything else, George decided to buy Charley the monkey for $25. George seemed pretty proud of his purchase, saying “I paid twenty-five for him. He is not one of your bird-store monkeys. Not him. This monk is a traveler, he is, and he’s been out three years on the road. He knows all kinds of money, hard and soft, and can make change. That monkey actually can tell the difference between a five-cent piece and a quarter. Take him, Charley; you can have a lot of fun with him.”

In an attempt to apparently jam as many stereotypes as possible into one article, the Trib goes on to recount how one evening the monkey was out for a stroll with Charley when the monkey bit Charley (it doesn’t say where, but does say “fasten his teeth in the anatomy of Mr. Charles Champlin”) and then took up a tree in the front yard. George came out and they all tried everything they could think of to get the monkey to come down from the perch, including hiring a classical music organ grinder to come play, then hiring a popular music organ grinder when the classical music didn’t work. The men assumed that the monkey was probably more used to pop tunes. In both cases, working organ grinders roaming the street and asking for donations for songs were near enough to the residence that the Champlins could simply run out and grab them. The popular music organ grinder played tunes such as “The Marseiliaise”, “Maggie Murphey’s Home”, “Peek-a-Boo”, “Down Went McGinty”, and more.

When the music failed to bring the monkey out of the tree, the men found people to try speaking in Italian to the monkey, then in English but with Italian accents. By this time a large crowd had been drawn around the tree, what with multiple organ grinders and people speaking up at a monkey resting on a branch. Several men then climbed nearby trees to try and roust the monkey, but the monkey leapt to a far reaching branch and held on by its tail. They tried to burn him out by holding a pole with burning lampwick by him, but the monkey ran down the pole, bit the man in the face, and then ran away again.

A camp was set out under the monkey after that, the men and their organ grinders hanging out until the wee hours of the morning. Eventually, one managed to snag the monkey’s chain and recapture him. This story is hilarious and hard to believe; perhaps the original writer took some liberties with the details, however it’s not the only story I’ve found from the time concerning escaped monkeys and Italian organ grinders.

Everyone not going after the monkey was relatively safe in this instance, but it wasn’t always the case. In September of 1915 there were multiple instances of people being attacked by loose monkeys inside of theatres. In one theatre, the monkey Prince Charles skipped his usual role of tickling the ears of the drummer and went straight for his eyes instead. That same week, chimpanzee Romeo the Great attacked a theatregoer and emotional wounded her so bad that she fainted when she saw the same chimp in the street just a few days later.

Happy October 14th, and if you see a monkey in a tree, it’s probably best to just leave it alone.