Subject: Monkeys doing drugs, attending economics lecture, studying religion

From: nu-monet <nothing@succeeds.com>
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Date: Mon, Oct 8, 2001 11:22 AM
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(both stories unedited, from Ananova)

Residents of an Indian town are complaining their
lives are being made a misery by a troupe of
drugged up monkeys.

It is believed the monkeys have become addicted to
opium they found in discharges from a drug factory
in Ghazipur.

Residents have been hiding inside from the monkeys
which have been chasing them and behaving erratically.

The problem is a 200-year-old drug factory that
makes medicines after processing opium, according
to the United News of India wire service.

Workers at the factory say the monkeys would not
have been able to find opium anywhere on the factory
premises.

The say the monkeys must have come across opium in
effluents from the factory, got high and came back
for more.

*******
A monkey sat quietly through an economics lecture at
an Indian college before going to the library and
flipping through a holy book.

Students at Madanpur Mahabir College in Bhubaneswar,
Orissa, say the monkey listened to the lecture with
"rapt attention".

The monkey then went to the library and looked at the
Ramayana, a Hindu holy book, and sat on a statue of
the monkey god Hanuman before quietly leaving the
college.

Students and lecturers at the college believe the
animal was an incarnation of Hanuman.

"The monkey was so calm and dignified, it did not
harm anyone. After it located the Ramayana it became
almost certain that Hanuman had made an appearance,"
a lecturer told Sify News.

--
"A woman's shrill, piercing scream. Her hair in
absolute disarray. She growls and bares her teeth
animal-like. Tensing her fingers so her hands look
more like claws, she pounces forward with an
earsplitting war cry as she grabs at her opponent's
nipples and gives them a mighty twist."

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