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ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - Officials warn of several monkeys on the loose in north St. Louis City.

The St. Louis City Health Department told First Alert 4 that they have received reports of four monkeys on the loose near Redbud Avenue. They currently have Animal Control officers patrolling the area to watch the monkeys and plan to trap them.
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Ten days in and it's already an unusual year.

No monkeys have been captured and are presumed to be at large, the department said.
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Fight the power, lil' monkeys! Run to freedom!!

It is stressed that you should not approach the animals, as they can be aggressive and act unpredictably.
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Indeed!

https://www.firstalert4.com/2026/01/09/residents-warned-4-monkeys-loose-north-city/
 
These guys are filming the last days of a Cold War bunker before it falls into the sea on the coast of East Riding. Tunstall is an area of extreme coastal erosion, and this bit of history is revealed to the world before it drops into the sea. Built in 1959, and rather far from the sea at the time.
Includes interview with local BBC news reporter.

Nice drone work.
 
10 minute wait to see an ROC post?

That was a let down

Here's it's entry on the Subbrit site with pictures.

There were 1,563 of them when they were all in service.

Tunstall ROC Post – Subterranea Britannica

Subterranea Britannica is a society devoted to the study and investigation of man-made (including Nuclear Bunkers) and man-used underground places.
www.subbrit.org.uk
 
Update on the monkeys! But the headline is the best part:

St. Louis offers amnesty for missing monkeys as search shifts focus

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) -The St. Louis Health Department announced it is no longer conducting searches for loose monkeys reported in the city four days ago. Justen Hauser, who is the environmental health bureau chief, said the department has shifted its focus from monkeys to monkey owners.
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It really makes it sound like they were planning to criminally charge the monkeys themselves, doesn't it?

Still some good pearl-clutchery going on:

Residents remain wary

Rumors are spreading in the area where the monkey was spotted. “There are six of them,” said Jaqueline Brown. And she worries about the safety of neighborhood children, “They will sneak up on these children and get them.”
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One of those stories that looks on surface utterly ridiculous, in our Saturday paper (no Sunday any more) a front page item concerns a woman facing multiple charges of public bird feeding! Yup, that's right, she's being taken to court for feeding the birds. What's next, helping little old ladies across the street?

Of course, if you read on, it's the public casting of bird seed on public ground, forbidden in Rutland City because it attracts and feeds rats.
 
bruto said:
One of those stories that looks on surface utterly ridiculous, in our Saturday paper (no Sunday any more) a front page item concerns a woman facing multiple charges of public bird feeding! Yup, that's right, she's being taken to court for feeding the birds. What's next, helping little old ladies across the street?

Of course, if you read on, it's the public casting of bird seed on public ground, forbidden in Rutland City because it attracts and feeds rats.
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Reminds me of a youtube video.

Guy in a deer blind gets a ticket for deer baiting.

He complains that he stopped baiting in October.

Game warden finds corn on the ground nonetheless...

Game warden explains that it has been illegal to feed deer for 15 years, because of wasting disease (CWD)*.

Comments are full of derpy derpy derp-derps, derping on about 'government bad'.



*I had to look that up, it's like Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (i.e. caused by prions) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creutzfeldt–Jakob_disease

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_wasting_disease CWD is spread by faeces contaminating soil and water, so anything that makes deer congregate (like feeding them) makes it spread more.
 
bruto said:
One of those stories that looks on surface utterly ridiculous, in our Saturday paper (no Sunday any more) a front page item concerns a woman facing multiple charges of public bird feeding! Yup, that's right, she's being taken to court for feeding the birds. What's next, helping little old ladies across the street?

Of course, if you read on, it's the public casting of bird seed on public ground, forbidden in Rutland City because it attracts and feeds rats.
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My dad told me a story of how in Manchester in around 1970 a lady fed the pigeons for many years despite rules against it and getting lots of warnings. Then one day all the pigeons were dead. It turned out she got a terminal diagnosis, and thought they would starve to death as no-one else would feed them due to the law, so she poisoned them. I don’t recall whether he said she was prosecuted for the bird killing or not.
 
gypsyjackson said:
My dad told me a story of how in Manchester in around 1970 a lady fed the pigeons for many years despite rules against it and getting lots of warnings. Then one day all the pigeons were dead. It turned out she got a terminal diagnosis, and thought they would starve to death as no-one else would feed them due to the law, so she poisoned them. I don’t recall whether he said she was prosecuted for the bird killing or not.
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Is there a Math teacher in the house?

 
Vermont is a funny sort of place. Blue, a socialist sentator and a lesbian representative, but a Republican governor, and you still get front page stories like this:

" A West Pawlet quarry worker was murdered for his drug stash by a man who hit him on the head while he was sleeping and finished him off after he staggered out of his trailer..."

Our votes are blue but our necks are red.
 
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