I want a monkey

Since I was young I have always wanted a pet monkey. I just love the idea of having one of the little guys climb up on my shoulder and hang out or go swinging around the house and be hilarious. I imagine it would be a difficult task keeping one of the devils but I still want one:)

Today on the geek blog Boing Boing I found this cool story about kids who ordered monkeys from the back of comic books in the 70's. Hilarious!

“I know it wasn’t over $25 bucks because I wouldn’t have bought it if it was. I remember I saved up the money to buy it, and I had it delivered to a friend’s house that lived around the block from me. ..."

".. I have no idea where it came from; I assumed it came from Florida. I figured, well, it’s probably near dehydration, so I opened up the cage to put some water in it. It leapt out of the cage when I opened it up the second time! ...

.. I grabbed it by its tail, and it came down on, starting literally up by my shoulder, like a drill press it landed on my arm, and every bite was breaking flesh. It was literally like an unsewing machine. It was literally unsewing my arm coming down, and I was pouring blood. I grabbed it by its neck with both my wrists, threw it back in the cage. It’s screaming like a scalded cat. I’m pouring blood. My friend’s laughing uncontrollably, and my father finally comes in the basement door and goes, ‘Jeffery! What are you doing to that rabbit?’ And I go, ‘It’s not a rabbit, it’s a monkey, and it just bit the hell out of me.’ ‘A monkey? Bring it up here!’ I’m pouring, I wrapped a t-shirt around my arm to stave off the bleeding, carried the cage upstairs, and I don’t know why I bothered sneaking it in, because they fell in love with it, and it was like, there was no problem at all. They took me to the emergency room and I got 28 stitches on my arm."

Ha! Good stuff.. I especially love the part where he taught the monkey to stay around his house outdoors so he could find bugs and stuff to eat. So cool!

Full Story:  http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=18236