Warning: Don't spank your monkey
It's official chaps, spanking your monkey can prove fatal and should come with a government health warning!!!!
This is what ultimately led to the demise of poor Khun Leurit Chanchum, from the Nakhon Sri Thammarat region in southern Thailand.
Let me set the record straight before you start thinking that Khun Leurit was a boss-eyed, sex pest who spent his days looking up the skirts of the local lasses.
He was actually a professional coconut collector, ably assisted in his task by Nong Khwan, his highly-trained macaque. Believe it or not, Nong Khwan graduated with honours from "Withayalai Ling", the country's foremost monkey training college based in Surat Thani.
The morning of February 25, 2009, began much the same as any other, with a neighbour hiring Khun Leurit to collect his coconuts. The first tree was duly harvested, but when prompted to climb the next, the cheeky monkey decided to work to rule and refused.
But, as I've always said, if you pay peanuts you get monkeys!!!
Nong Khwan, not being subject to the same workplace rights as most other citizens, was then giving a beating by his none too pleased owner.
According to reports, this led to the creature flying into a rage and once at the top of tree, it started kicking the bunches of coconuts, causing one to dislodge and fall onto the head of the hapless Khun Leurit, knocking him unconscious. Despite being taken to the local infirmary he later died from the injuries he sustained.
This gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "going ape"!!!!!
This is what ultimately led to the demise of poor Khun Leurit Chanchum, from the Nakhon Sri Thammarat region in southern Thailand.
Let me set the record straight before you start thinking that Khun Leurit was a boss-eyed, sex pest who spent his days looking up the skirts of the local lasses.
He was actually a professional coconut collector, ably assisted in his task by Nong Khwan, his highly-trained macaque. Believe it or not, Nong Khwan graduated with honours from "Withayalai Ling", the country's foremost monkey training college based in Surat Thani.
The morning of February 25, 2009, began much the same as any other, with a neighbour hiring Khun Leurit to collect his coconuts. The first tree was duly harvested, but when prompted to climb the next, the cheeky monkey decided to work to rule and refused.
But, as I've always said, if you pay peanuts you get monkeys!!!
Nong Khwan, not being subject to the same workplace rights as most other citizens, was then giving a beating by his none too pleased owner.
According to reports, this led to the creature flying into a rage and once at the top of tree, it started kicking the bunches of coconuts, causing one to dislodge and fall onto the head of the hapless Khun Leurit, knocking him unconscious. Despite being taken to the local infirmary he later died from the injuries he sustained.
This gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "going ape"!!!!!
If you wish to read the full story from the Phuket Gazzette please click on the following link.....
http://www.phuketgazette.net/archives/queernews/2009/article7180.html
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