They did not shoot him?
I cannot believe it. Attacking a patrol car and remaining alive. In USA?
"Shortly after 8am," reported Florida's Sanford Police Department (SPD), "we received a call from a Sanford resident who lives in the Hidden Lakes subdivision, reporting that a monkey was eating mail out of a mailbox." The mail-munching macaque caused the neighbourhood to go bananas when someone happened to see her "and …
"I cannot believe it. Attacking a patrol car and remaining alive. In USA?"
You can see from the video that Zeek the macaque's fur is mostly pale in colour, so I'm sure he was completely safe.
However, had he looked like the monkey in the headline photo, with fur of a very much darker hue, I imagine he would have been shot repeatedly for viciously attacking a police officer with his retreating back as he ran away...
When the monkey was on top of the car it must have been a very stressful situation for passers-by.. How would they know who was actually in charge, the being on the roof or the being behind the wheel ?
Not an easy situation to judge....They are both primates, with equal intelligence, although one of them might be seriously overweight and a lot slower than the other.
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No doubt as a result of the sterling actions of the residents of Hartlepool during the early 19th century
http://www.thisishartlepool.co.uk/history/thehartlepoolmonkey.asp
Mind you we do also have the only colony of wild monkeys in Europe on Gibraltar and they've been known to pilfer from tourists
I'm not posting this via the corrections link because I'm not 100% sure it's wrong and I'd like to see what other commentards think of the phrase.
I'd always say "wreaked havoc" because I associate the verb with unleashing destruction. "Wrought" puts me in mind of constructive acts, like something being wrought (worked) in a foundry or how a jeweller might work (or fashion) metal into some sort of intricate shape. Or like, "Oh, what a brave new world social media has wrought?" (actual example from the net)
Just thinking out loud, really.
Well, I'm wrong. Wrought is a past participle of the verb to work, and the correct p.pl. of wreak is wreaked. I'm quite sure that "wrought havoc" is an acceptable phrase in English, though.
Here is an entire blog post about the issue.
PS for El Reg. It's not polite to time out my post editing while I'm editing it!