Monkeys attack lab tech, escape with Covid-19 samples

[Recursion]

Oh. Oh good.

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-monkeys-escape-with-covid-19-samples-after-attacking-lab-assistant-11996752

A gang of monkeys attacked a laboratory assistant and escaped with a batch of coronavirus test samples, it has been reported.

The bizarre incident saw the troop of primates launch their assault near Meerut Medical College in Delhi, India.

According to local media, the animals then snatched COVID-19 test samples from three patients and fled.

One of the monkeys was later spotted in a tree chewing one of the sample collection kits, the Times of India reported - adding that test samples from the patients had to be taken again.

[Dave in VA]

1. Planet of the apes begins!

[lagomorph777]

12. The correct movie reference is Twelve Monkeys

12 Monkeys, also known as Twelve Monkeys, is a 1995 American science fiction film directed by Terry Gilliam, inspired by Chris Marker's 1962 short film La Jetée, and starring Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, and Brad Pitt, with Christopher Plummer and David Morse in supporting roles. After Universal Studios acquired the rights to remake La Jetée as a full-length film, David and Janet Peoples were hired to write the script.

A deadly virus, released in 1996, wipes out almost all of humanity; forcing survivors to live underground. A group known as the Army of the Twelve Monkeys is believed to have released the virus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Monkeys

[rusty fender]

27. Nope

The 12 Monkeys group actually released animals from a zoo. The virus was released by a lab worker.

[raccoon]

2. Sounds like a Carl Hiaasen book. Nt

[Buckeye_Democrat]

3. Could the monkeys get infected?

I bet they won't even wear masks!

[dalton99a]

4. Yes.

[LisaL]

18. Absolutely.

They are our close "relative."

[In_The_Wind]

5. The monkeys are taking over.

[lagomorph777]

13. The monkeys have taken over

[In_The_Wind]

15. Ain't that the truth.

[Solly Mack]

6. Is it wrong that I laughed? Still laughing?

I know, I know.

It was a what's next, raining frogs kind of laugh. If you know what I mean.

When life hands you absurdities...

[sop]

8. Yeah, for me it was "One of the monkeys was later spotted in a tree chewing on

one of the collection kits."

[Solly Mack]

9. That part threatened to send me into uncontrollable

laughter. I had to get a grip. Lasted about 3 seconds.

[LisaL]

19. Spreading covid is hilarious. I get that.

[Solly Mack]

20. You obviously don't get it. But felt the need to comment

on something you don't understand anyway.

Fucked up shit happens in the world and sometimes the hits keep coming, so much so that laughter eases the stress when it begins to border on the absurd.

Now, had you bothered to read the entire exchange instead of reacting to one part you might have grasped the context of the whole.

Feel free to assume and eyeroll some more. I've got all morning.

[Recursion]

22. Same. At some point I just snapped

It's as if somebody had asked "what else can go wrong?"

[Solly Mack]

25. Exactly. What next? How much more?

Afraid to even ask could it get worse.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

14. It's gotta be those crazy Canadians ...

Any minute one of them will jump out and point to the camera

https://www.youtube.com/user/JustForLaughsTV

[Solly Mack]

16. It might be fun to be caught on monkey-cam.

Cheeky, mischievous, and potentially lethal.

[LisaL]

23. Well, this one is going to likely be lethal.

Monkeys can get infected and most likely will. Then it will spread among monkeys and more humans that monkeys come in contact with.

[Solly Mack]

26. True. A mutation could prove swift in how deadly it becomes.

Scary thought. Drove me over the edge just thinking about it.

[sop]

7. Is Sky News now affiliated with The Onion?

[a la izquierda]

10. Did they call the langurwala (spelling?)?

Admittedly I laughed and then asked if I could be put on Space X and sent to the space station.

[fleur-de-lisa]

11. Not content to control just the cabana, the monkeys have overtaken the college.

More from the article:

It is the latest example of the highly intelligent, red-faced rhesus macaques taking advantage of India's nationwide lockdown to combat the spread of coronavirus.

While they have proved an increasing problem in urban areas of the country in recent years, lockdown measures in the last two months have emboldened the monkeys.

Reports have shown them congregating in parts of Delhi normally crowded with humans.

[Shell_Seas]

17. And why not? It's 2020 and the worlds already gone to shit.

[Kid Berwyn]

21. Sounds like the monkeys know what they're doing. Are they available?

Sure would be an upgrade for what blocked psycho moron we got running things now.

[Baclava]

24. Escape from Planet of the Apes! Cornelius and Zira will lead the way