Yesterday, we learned why you shouldn’t give a chimp an AK-47.
Today,
we learn — from Luzerne County, unsurprisingly — why it’s a bad idea to get drunk and take your dad’s monkey for a ride on a stolen ATV.
Police said that yesterday, March 19, Jeff W. Arnott Jr., 23, stole an all-terrain vehicle and went on a intoxicated joyride yelling and screaming incoherently. At about 4 a.m., law caught up to him and saw that he had a passenger that was a primate, namely a java macaque that can grow to almost two-feet in height and weigh up to 20 pounds.
“He didn’t even have it on a leash or anything. It was sitting in the back, going for a ride,” said Gerald Kapral of the state Game Commission
When the ATV was finally stopped, Arnott and the monkey fled in different directions, police said. Arnott was quickly apprehended but the wily monkey managed to elude pursuers which led to a day of terror in Northeast Pa since police put out bulletins describing the critter as “dangerous”.
Just imagine if Mr. Arnott had given the monkey an AK-47. Just imagine if the monkey had had this weapon during the police pursuit.
After an hours-long monkey-hunt, the suspect was finally convinced to surrender by its owner James Arnott, Sr., who had had the animal for 15 years raising it from a baby.
It is named Tyler Mikye.
Family members said Tyler Mikye would swim in the family pool, play with the neighbor’s dog and drink alcohol.
Arnott Sr. cried for hours after authorities hauled it away as it is illegal to have a monkey as a pet in this state.
Charges are expected.
The younger Arnott is was jailed in Luzerne County Correctional Facility in lieu of $25,000 bail on charges of receiving stolen property, resisting arrest, harassment and flight to avoid apprehension.
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