NTDWA – About 40 trained youths have been pressed into service, disguised as langurs and screeching and grunting loudly, to scare away monkeys from Delhi’s corridors of power. The men are summoned by the New Delhi Municipal Council to spots, including the Parliament House, that come under siege from monkeys. The ‘langurs’ suddenly appear from behind bushes and trees to drive away the simians through sounds and gestures.
Until last year, Delhi’s streets were patrolled by actual langurs. But because of change in law in November 2012 this practice ended. “These young men have trained themselves to pose as langurs. We have no option but to hire them because, as per law, even an officer who calls for langur and its master to drive away monkeys can be booked and jailed,” said a senior official.
[The] NDMC was also considering issuing extra taxes to those who keep bananas and other fruits on the roadside for monkeys to feed on.
Ah, the business of monkeys. Looks like our congress, doesn’t it?
This Dehli you speak of,
it is not a part of Detroit, Chicago or Baltimore, perhaps?
Shovel ready.
Sounds like India has an E.P.A. problem too.
I blame Quickie Marts.
Philly plans to import hundreds of these monkeys as Poll Watchers in 2016.
Wait. What? The city had them in 2012? Oh, then, never mind.
Is this Oblowme’s vision for a fundamentally transformed America?
There is a new cause for the Democratic Party here somewhere. I just haven’t figured out what that is yet.
“About 40 trained youths have been pressed into service, disguised as langurs and screeching and grunting loudly, to scare away monkeys from Delhi’s corridors of power.”
Can they bring a few to the White House?
Yeeeaaaaaah… I went there.
Anti DOMA and minimum wage increases for transgendered disguised langurs?
Republican war on disguised langurs?
I am considering a trip to Delhi next Feb, will be fun to get a selfie with one of these.
Hey it is better to hire these guys to do something rather than sit on their asses and collect welfare like so many do here.
A gathering of Baboons is called:
A. A herd.
B. A flock.
C. A covey.
D. A congress.
E. A choir.
Maybe we could hire them.
To scare away ILLEGAL FOREIGN INVADERS from the welfare and social security offices… :whistling:
During the Cholera epidemics of the mid to late 19th century in England, Parliament did pretty much nothing. Until the raw sewage in the Thames was passing by the government buildings fronting the Thames and the stench was overpowering. So they erected “medicated window blinds” which just meant you couldn’t see the shit floating by any longer and the smell didn’t permeate more than about ten feet past the blinds. Because when I think of raw sewage in a river, I think medicated window blinds for buildings.
If these monkeys were NOT at the government buildings, you can bet NO action would be taken.
@Moe Tom — D. A Congress.
A gathering of muzloids is called:
A) a Babbling
B) a Hijacking
C) a Detention
D) a Waterboarding
E) a Target
I thought of a couple of good comments, but it looks like y’all pretty much covered it.
What is the Whitehouse trying to scare away with that Sasquatch thing that dresses funny and hangs out with on occasion with Prezzy Cooldude Momjeans and the two kids
Oh yeah. The collective noun game!
A congress of baboons.
A target of muzloids.
A murder of bros.
A bury of (jungle)bunnies.
(Had a little “staredown” at Wal-Mart this AM so am feeling a little racist.)
As for a collective noun for sasquatch, has anyone ever reported observing a GROUP of them?
If I saw anything looking like this coming at me on the street,
http://www.indianwildlifephotos.com/view_largephoto.php?mode=proddetail&cat=0&prod=390&cn=
the CW would no longer be concealed.
Are they overwhelmed with job applications from America?
@boobie well if they ever clone the first mooch we will have to invent a word for it.