Marauding Monkey’s Reign of Terror Ends
For the past few months, a wild monkey terrorized part of Shizuoka Prefecture, attacking and hurting as many as 118 people. The effort to capture the monkey became international news. After repeated failures to bring in the monkey, a local government put a 200,000 yen bounty on the monkey.
It all came to an end when the monkey decided to raid a house. The owner of the house, who had been a victim of a monkey raid a little less than a month ago, was prepared for just such an occurrence. He chased the monkey into a closet and trapped the animal by closing the closet door.
Police and city workers then arrived with nets and tasers and captured the beast. As you can see from about 1 minute and 50 seconds into the video, the monkey put up a great fight before they finally put him in a cage:
The prize money was paid to the owner of the closet. He says he will be using it to buy his kids some nice birthday presents.
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