The Commonwealth Games Monkey Security Guards

[Fugitive]

Delhi ropes in monkeys for Commonwealth Games security

 

Delhi authorities have deployed a contingent of large black-faced langur monkeys at the Commonwealth Games venues to scare away smaller simians.

 

At least 10 langurs have been on duty outside some of the venues in the Indian capital, reports say.

 

Delhi civic authorities have 28 langurs and 10 more have been brought in from the neighbouring Rajasthan state.

 

Thousands of monkeys roam Delhi, mostly around government offices and are considered a public nuisance.

 

Langurs are an aggressive type of monkey with long tails and dark faces. They are controlled on leads by specially trained handlers, who release them once other monkeys are seen.

 

The boxing and hockey stadiums are seen as particularly vulnerable to the monkey menace, the AFP news agency quoted a civic official as saying.

Four langurs each will patrol the two stadiums, he said. Two more would be on standby, he added.

 

"They are there for the monkey problem. They will be moving outside the stadiums," AFP quoted New Delhi Municipal Committee official Devender Prasad as saying.

 

For years the animals have caused havoc, riding on the city's metro trains and even roaming through parliament.

 

They have invaded the prime minister's office and the defence ministry.

They cannot be killed because many Indians see them as sacred.

 

After one of the strongest monsoon seasons in years, Delhi is also struggling with a major dengue fever outbreak caused by mosquitoes that breed in standing water.

 

Fish that eat mosquito larvae have reportedly been put in the pond in the Games Village to protect athletes from dengue, a viral infection transmitted to humans by the female Aedes mosquito

 

BBC News - Delhi ropes in monkeys for Commonwealth Games security

[She Knows It]

Monkey bouncers. Ace! They should employ them in town.

[KinskiRage]

You just know one of them is going to break free and chew a spectators face off at some point during the next couple of weeks.

[Pdool]

 

It's just a matter of time now.

[Hand Shandy]

 

[jacco maccaco]

Commonwealth Games 2010: Monkey vs Monkey

 

 

Among the threats facing the 2010 Commonwealth Games: marauding gangs of monkeys.

In India, monkeys run amuck, causing damage to property and sometimes attacking people.

The Commonwealth Games' organizing committee cannot risk visiting athletes getting attacked by rogue monkeys, so they're trying an innovative solution: hire bigger monkeys to act as simian bouncers.

 

Enter the langur.

 

Langurs are larger monkeys, and officials are hoping that they will be suitably aggressive if approached by the smaller Rhesus macaques, which are both loathed by those who maintain infrastructure and protected by devout Hindus. It's no joke: Delhi Deputy Mayor S.S. Bajwa fell to his death from a rooftop after he was attacked by macaques.

 

28 langurs are on staff, as it were, and 10 more have been brought in from a neighboring province.

 

 

 

Smiles knowingly to himself...

[Whollier]

The Indian authorities ought to offer higher wages to their security staff.

 

You pay peanuts, you get monkeys.