Monkeys attack five women in Nagano
NAGANO —
Two monkeys entered a residential area in Chino City around 8 a.m. Sunday morning and attacked and bit five women, leaving one woman in her 70s and two women in their 60s with bruises to their calves, police said.
Another woman in her 30s said: “I was coming home and right outside my house when a big monkey jumped onto my back. It was very scary.”
The neighborhood is in the mountains about 1.5 kilometers west of JR Chino station. Police have put up signs urging caution at the nearby Suwa Grand Shrine, one of the oldest Shinto shrines in Japan.
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elbudamexicano
Wow! THis is such a scary story! No more Nagano vacations for me! I wills stay in my comfy concrete jungle here in Tokyo!
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mcheeky
You could live in Nagano for years and never see a monkey, even if you sometimes go hiking. No worries.
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Sidwarwick
elbudamexicano: There was a monkey in Shibuya station a few weeks back. I wouldn't get too complacent in your concrete jungle if I were you.
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30061015
Monkies go ape sometimes too. It must be hard being a monkey in these troubled times.
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mindovermatter
But later she realized it was only her 45 yr old Oyaji husband, acting like a 12 yr old again...
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catfishboy
I heard them during summertime, I usually scare them off with fireworks.
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catfishboy
it is the big grey ones the one's that look like mandrills which are scary, the other smaller ones are kawaii!!
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ptolemy
Ok guys quit monkeying around. Now bow and appologize or we will toss you aside.
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soothsayer
I think the monkeys should be gibbon the chance to tell their side of the story.
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usaexpat
Anywhere of the beaten path you have to think about monkeys. In Nagasaki they actually give loudspeaker warnings when a monkey is spotted in the city. That was my first clue that Japan is truly a foreign country, back home we only have sqiurels and raccoons.
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