Ape Has Killed Ape!
The unruly monkeys of Delhi have been accused of killing a deputy mayor, who died of head injuries in hospital yesterday after falling from the first-floor terrace of his home.
S. S. Baiwa, 52, a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), fell while reading a newspaper on the terrace at about 7am on Saturday, according to his family. They said that they thought he had been attacked by monkeys and lost his balance while trying to chase them away. “Otherwise, there was no reason for a man sitting in his chair to fall,†Pawan Bhaskar, his personal assistant, said.
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on Sunday, October 21st, 2007, 11:20 pm in Brown, India, Really Weird, ape, death, delhi, mayor, monkey › 
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I LOLed. I know I shouldn’t have.
It reminded me of another headline from last year that might have been - ” Politician felled by ‘macaca’ ”
Your headline should win an award. Not to mention your choice of photos.
The reference is to: BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES (1973).
“Ape has killed ape! Ape has killed ape! Ape has killed ape!”â€â€Chanted by apes after an ape kills an ape.
I know, I know! That’s why I laughed out loud.
Funny maybe but slightly poor taste ,don’t you think?
Anyways here is an explanation on how to handle a situation like this one
Runa, are you accusing us of having taste?
Mea culpa ! :-)
I was attacked by a monkey in Bombay’s business district once. Jumped on my back and scratched it right through my clothes. But interestingly enough, this was not an urbanized wild monkey, it was a show monkey - or a trick monkey - which the madaari lost control of. Why the madaari was allowed to be there in the first place is the real question.
I had almost forgotten the incident, so when I followed Runaji’s link and their links, I was indignant that foreign journalists new to India were playing up a story for its exotic, ‘this can only happen in India’ value, to be run on p. 7 on a slow news day - which may, of course, also be true. But there’s also the reality of it.
And BTW, Bangalore also has a huge monkey menace.
Chachaji, I feel your pain from the city of Porbandar.
‘Bandar’ in Arabic = port; harbor, as in ‘Porbandar’.
‘Bandar’ in Hindi = monkey (from Sanskrit Vaanarah - literally - ‘not man’)
Not to forget Apollo Bunder and Bori Bunder, i.e. CST.