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| Ali |
| 05/17/01 at 11:19:05 |
| Two die in fear of monkey man: By Suzanne Steavenson Two people have been killed and dozens injured in mass hysteria sparked by bizarre reports of a mysterious ‘monkey man’. Panic swept through India’s capital Delhi following reports of late-night attacks by the ape-like creature which, it has been claimed, has clawed and bitten scores of people during the passed fortnight. Two nights earlier, a man was killed when he leapt in terror from a two-story building screaming: ‘The monkey has come’. Those claiming to have been attacked have given bizarre descriptions of the beast. They say it is about 4ft tall with a hairy body, and an ape-like face. Industrial worker Prakash Chand 37, said: ‘I woke up and I heard this strange growling sound’. ‘It was very well built and whacked me hard on the arm’. He said he wrestled with the creature, which jumped off the first floor terrace and vanished into the darkness. About 1,000 police officers are involved in the search but thousands of vigilantes have also taken to the streets armed with sticks and chanting ‘Kill him, kill him’. At least two short men have been beaten up after being mistaken for the creature, which has been spotted more than 50 times in a single night. Police chiefs have blamed the panic on uneducated superstitious people, whose fears may be increased by dark nights during electricity cuts. |
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| jannah |
| 05/17/01 at 12:49:03 |
| Ali did you make that story up!! thats crazy... |
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| Lisha |
| 05/17/01 at 13:29:51 |
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| Kashif |
| 05/17/01 at 14:57:03 |
| Nope - its true! http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia_china/story.jsp?story=72709 |
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| Moe |
| 05/17/01 at 15:16:46 |
| 'Monkey Man' Hysteria Grips New Delhi Suburbs Updated: Wed, May 16 07:43 AM EDT http://home-news.excite.ca/news/r/010516/07/odd-monkey-dc NEW DELHI (Reuters) - "Monkey man" hysteria is sowing panic in India's capital, with media reporting that two terrified residents fell to their death on hearing that an ape-like attacker was nearby. Police said on Wednesday that they were no closer to solving the mystery of an ape-like creature which residents accuse of clawing and biting dozens of people in New Delhi suburbs over the past fortnight. "We have consulted doctors about the bites and they said they were by some animal," Joint Commissioner of Police Suresh Roy told Reuters. "The information we have is pointing toward an animal. But we checked with the local zoo and they said no animal had escaped from there." Media reports said that the collective hysteria claimed a second life early on Tuesday after a pregnant woman sleeping on her terrace was woken by neighbors shouting: "The monkey has come!." The woman fell down a staircase and died in hospital. Two nights earlier, an industrial worker died in similar circumstances when he leapt in terror from a building at Noida, a southeastern suburb. Roy said there had been no reports of injuries in the affected areas on Tuesday night. But there had previously been dozens of calls about attacks -- many of them bogus -- from people who gave varying and sometimes bizarre descriptions of the now celebrated "monkey man." Two indentikit portraits put together with the help of the creature's victims suggested it was human. One showed a swarthy broad-faced bearded man with a flat nose, thick lips and a piercing stare. The other, which could hardly have been more different, portrayed a narrow-faced man with a receding hairline, a scrappy mustache and dark glasses. The Indian Express quoted a resident of Noida as saying that a creature "as small as a cat" bit her fingers, and two of her husband's teeth were knocked out by a "metallic hand." Two houses away, there was a different story. "It was a monkey alright, and about four foot tall, but as soon as I grabbed it, it turned itself into a cat with tawny, glowing eyes," the newspaper quoted a resident as saying. Monkeys run wild in New Delhi and on the outskirts of the city. Sometimes they pounce on unsuspecting pedestrians or enter houses. |
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| AbdulBasir |
| 05/17/01 at 15:20:29 |
| [slm] Interesting, I read this on CNN as well. Anyone else think of the verse, "Be ye apes, despised and rejected" :) Maybe it was literal in this case? ;-D [slm] :) |
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| Mahmoodah |
| 05/17/01 at 19:11:15 |
| salam now i am gettin confused, it REALLY sounds made up 2 me!!! wa-salam |
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| eleanor |
| 05/18/01 at 09:01:57 |
| slm it's in the tabloids here in Germany. It could be just a gorilla on the loose and the people are imagining it as something different.. wasalaam eleanor |
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| momineqbal |
| 05/18/01 at 15:03:02 |
| Doctor held for 'monkey' prank By A Staff Reporter NEW DELHI: A Noida ESI doctor who decided to use the monkey-man scare to raise a few laughs in east Delhi's Ganesh Nagar on Thursday discovered that the police did not share his idea of a joke. Dr Narendra Kumar Sagar (36) was arrested on the charge of attempting to disrupt public order. The police said Dr Sagar hit upon his idea of a practical joke while dyeing his hair. He inflated the rubber glove he was using to apply the hairdye, secured it with a string and threw it from his second storey balcony on to a group of persons standing in the street below. As the group was trying to figure out what the odd-looking object was, Dr Sagar screamed: ``bandar ka haath, bandar ka haath'' (the monkey's hand). Word spread within minutes and it appeared that all of Ganesh Nagar had converged on the spot to see the `monkey's hand'. At some point Dr Sagar volunteered to check the hand out. He stamped on it. When the glove burst and the good doctor revealed his cards and went home. But the rumour of the `sighting' not only did not die down, it spread like wild fire. The commotion attracted the police who soon saw through the prank. Dr Sagar told the police he had indulged in it only to teach his neighbours not to be taken in by the monkey-man myth. The police, of course, did not see his logic and arrested him. |
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| BrKhalid |
| 05/18/01 at 15:08:15 |
| Asalaamu Alaikum [quote]Media reports said that the collective hysteria claimed a second life early on Tuesday after a pregnant woman sleeping on her terrace was woken by neighbors shouting: "The monkey has come!." The woman fell down a staircase and died in hospital. Two nights earlier, an industrial worker died in similar circumstances when he leapt in terror from a building at Noida, a southeastern suburb.[/quote] [quote]Dr Narendra Kumar Sagar (36) was arrested on the charge of attempting to disrupt public order.[/quote] Allah knows best |
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| Anonymous |
| 05/18/01 at 15:36:21 |
| No it wasnt made up. It was in the newspapers (national respected newspapers) not the Inquirer or sun :) They say its a monkey man but the people who died did so while trying to run away from the beast they were told was coming. They were not actually killed by the beast itself. And has anyone actually seen it? Its supposed to be 4 foot and very hairy! There was a guy in my class who was very short and hairy so I am in great doubt this monkey man is real! Do you guys remeber the story from Indian a few years back of a porcelin cow that drank milk? That was fake! |
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| jaihoon |
| 05/18/01 at 17:04:17 |
| I am just waiting for the truth to be out. it would be just another make of media buzz... When agencies like FBI can serious 'mistakes', let alone the ignorant society. It is surprising to note that despite the technological advancements and the triumph of Reason over Religion, news relating to UFOs and Extra terrestrial creatures are hot-selling commodity in West. Is Monkey Man a reverse theory of Darvinian Evolution? Or was it a mistake of much-hyped genetic engineering? Or in the words of hollywood, 'a violation of the sixth day'? :) |
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| chachi |
| 05/18/01 at 21:32:52 |
yeah the milk myth..we were going to play a nasty trick on our hindu housemate sneak into his room scatter a few drops of milk near the statues and pictures there and then lock the place and when he came back tell him all our milk had gone missing..figured we could rake in the cash by collecting money from hindu's to come and see the amazing milk drinking pictures...lol our sikh housemate went into the hindu's room once and you know like all those hindu godesses are sort of ahem well built..he poked the hindu bloke with his elbow and said ..'Bit of a looker eh?'..lol lol lol..man the crowd went wild! |
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