Remember, kids, monkeys make terrible pets. It sounds like a story straight out of a Carl Hiaasen novel, so of course the Man Himself noticed it: Here's how the Miami Monkeynapping went down, according to the Miami Herald. Last Friday night, Vanessa Di Gennaro was doing some cleaning in her trailer home at the Aquarius Mobile Home & RV Park in Homestead and had put her pet white tufted marmoset, Zoe, outside on a leash, because why even clean the mobile home if there's a 2-pound monkey running around the place? Di Gennaro is one of those pet owners who goes a wee bit overboard, buying the animal custom dresses and such. While she worked, she could hear Zoe “singing and chirping,” said Di Gennaro, who added, "She sounds like a bird." When the singing stopped, Di Gennaro went out and saw the leash, but no monkey. A frantic neighborhood search ensued, with Di Gennaro walking around the mobile home park yelling the monkey's name late into the night, to no avail. She distributed fliers offering a $1,000 reward, and eventually received a phone call from a neighbor who said a man in a trailer two spaces away had the monkey, but the man insisted he knew nothing about no monkey. “He said he didn’t know what I was talking about,” Di Gennaro said.
Florida Man Kidnaps Monkey, Tells Stupid Lies, Gets Arrested Like A Florida Man. Your Open Thread!
Florida Man Kidnaps Monkey, Tells Stupid…
Florida Man Kidnaps Monkey, Tells Stupid Lies, Gets Arrested Like A Florida Man. Your Open Thread!
Remember, kids, monkeys make terrible pets. It sounds like a story straight out of a Carl Hiaasen novel, so of course the Man Himself noticed it: Here's how the Miami Monkeynapping went down, according to the Miami Herald. Last Friday night, Vanessa Di Gennaro was doing some cleaning in her trailer home at the Aquarius Mobile Home & RV Park in Homestead and had put her pet white tufted marmoset, Zoe, outside on a leash, because why even clean the mobile home if there's a 2-pound monkey running around the place? Di Gennaro is one of those pet owners who goes a wee bit overboard, buying the animal custom dresses and such. While she worked, she could hear Zoe “singing and chirping,” said Di Gennaro, who added, "She sounds like a bird." When the singing stopped, Di Gennaro went out and saw the leash, but no monkey. A frantic neighborhood search ensued, with Di Gennaro walking around the mobile home park yelling the monkey's name late into the night, to no avail. She distributed fliers offering a $1,000 reward, and eventually received a phone call from a neighbor who said a man in a trailer two spaces away had the monkey, but the man insisted he knew nothing about no monkey. “He said he didn’t know what I was talking about,” Di Gennaro said.