Ninja Monkies, attack!

[gridlore]

Police in Ariz. Seek Monkey for SWAT Team

MESA, Ariz. - The Mesa Police Department is looking to add some primal instinct to its SWAT team. And to do that, it's looking to a monkey.

"Everybody laughs about it until they really start thinking about it," said Mesa Officer Sean Truelove, who builds and operates tactical robots for the suburban Phoenix SWAT team. "It would change the way we do business."

Truelove is spearheading the department's request to purchase and train a capuchin monkey, considered the second smartest primate to the chimpanzee. The department is seeking about $100,000 in federal grant money to put the idea to use in Mesa SWAT operations.

The monkey, which costs $15,000, is what Truelove envisions as the ultimate SWAT reconnaissance tool.

No commentary. I just like typing "Ninja Monkey."

Comments

[docwebster.livejournal.com]

"Pesky ninjas."

[deyo.livejournal.com]

...a capuchin monkey, considered the second smartest primate to the chimpanzee.

I hope we at least made third.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

I bet it was the Bonobos.

[kshandra]

Go to your room, Bill. And no, you may not take a sweetie with you.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Wanders away singing...

        Poly Hitler bonobos
        Lifestyle, lifestyle
        Poly Hitler bonobos
        All the livelong day
        Going to post all night
        Going to post all day
        Bet my money on the bonobo
        Somebody bet on RJ

[aurictech.livejournal.com]

Jonah Goldberg mentioned this yesterday on NRO's The Corner (http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/05_04_17_corner-archive.asp#060947). His take is that it would be cool "to be the first perp to snarl 'Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!'"

I must say that I concur with Jonah's comment.

[arib.livejournal.com]

My brother had a classmate whose parents trained capuchins to work with quadraplegics.

[drewkitty.livejournal.com]

It's a nifty idea. The only problem is, that the monkey is probably too smart to play. Once he figures out how dangerous a ninja monkey job actually is, he'll make off for the high hills and the banana groves of Safeway.

Come to think of it -- hostage situation in a supermarket -- the little monk will think he died and found God.

[angharad.livejournal.com]

Now I want a robot pirate.

(One of my friends must've linked me here.)