Wednesday, January 9, 2008

MONKEY THIEF ATTACK

Yesterday, in the middle of feeling stressed out about finding a reasonably priced entry into India (highly unlikely, and I plan on two round trips...), while flipping the pages of my Thailand guidebook I saw: "blahblahblah more than any other place in Thailand blahblahblah is a city besieged by monkeys blahblahblah".

I came straight here!


Here is Lopburi, a small town of around 60,000 with fast internet! I've been here less than an hour and I was attacked by a monkey. Meters after I exited my bus, he jumped on my small shoulder bag and then on the bag of food I was not-so-cleverly taunting him with. Apples, grapes, a tangerine, and a nearly new box of crackers spilled across the sidewalk. Apart from a few grapes the fruit was recovered. See for yourself what happened to the crackers:

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Related belated news, in Calcutta two years ago a monkey stole the banana off my banana yogurt at the outside restaurant run by my hotel. I couldn't complain, the room was around $3 USD a night, and they did not even make me pay for the yogurt part.

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