The High Court ordered the city to find an answer to the problem last year. One approach has been to train bands of larger, more ferocious langur monkeys to go after the smaller groups of Rhesus macaques.Well, I can't think of any conceivable way in which that plan could go wrong...
Monday, October 22
The dangers of local government
This is Nicky Gavron, deputy mayor of London. As a well-off, middle-aged woman in a Western capital city, statistically speaking, she leads a safe life: the main dangers to her health are trauma (primarily vehicle accidents), stroke, cancer and (later in life) heart disease.
This, by contrast, is SS Bajwa, Gavron's counterpart in Delhi. He has just died after trying to fight off a mob of angry monkeys.
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Bengal tigers bred to attack the ocelots that were bred to attack the tasmanian devils that were bred to attack the giant stoats that were bred to attack the langur monkeys that were bred to attack the rhesus macaques that attack public officials?
Could solve the Tiger shortage through economic need.
I don't think an ocelot could take a tasmanian devil. Those little Aussie blighters are tough as old boots.
Fortunately, Bengal tigers already have a natural predator - upper-class 19th century Englishmen who have been unlucky in love. So that's all right.
Ah well, local government is a lot more exciting than you'd think! Honest...
OK, so we don't get death-by-monkey-troupe, but we do have the former Mayor of Swindon arrested for kerb-crawling. Fortunately he was not scheduled to be one of the participants in 'I'm a Councillor, Get me out of Here!'
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