I read an article on YAHOO news about the city of Delhi in India. Apparently they have a monkey problem. Monkeys have moved in and become a nuissance to Delhi´s residents.

Their crimes include thefts and even assaults when they are in groups. They know how to get access to everything people can by just watching them. So they can go in people´s refrigerators when they are not home or use the front door too. They can even get access to water towers and when they do they contaminate the water. They watch people and know their daily schedules in order to rob them just like a clever thief. These thiefs are agile and protected by the government.

Since it is illegal to harm the monkeys they try hiring people to chase them away. They even have resorted to training larger monkeys to chase them away. Both of these methods seem to have only limited effect because the monkeys just return.

Large cities like Paris and New York have cockroaches and rats but Delhi has outdone them with monkeys. Smart monkeys at that.

So what do you do with an adorable nuissance? Should you exterminate them and be hated by the international community? Or should you just give up like many New Yorkers and move?

If the example of New York has taught us anything it´s that sprays, powders, traps and shoe-swatting won´t solve the problem. That kind of “diplomacy” never works with a city´s smarter residents.

This editorial was inspired from the article below.

Monkeys Run This Town

By Muhammad Lila

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/dotworld-abc-news/monkeys-run-town-175102795.html?vp=1

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