Re: Weak Vampires?

In the Year of the Earth Rat, the Great and Powerful William 
December Starr declared:
> In article <frp68i$kmj$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (James Nicoll) said:
> 
>> Come to think of it, one of the interesting things going on in
>> India as the nation urbanizes is that monkeys are moving into the
>> cities as well. Right now urban monkey populations are soaring
> 
> Indeed:
> 
> "Monkeys recently broke into the Defense Department, scattering secret
> documents." -- Ian Williams, NBC News, in Delhi, India, 19 Dec. 2007
> 

It's far worse than that -- they've moved onto political assassination:

    <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7055625.stm>

    The deputy mayor of the Indian capital Delhi has died a day
    after being attacked by a horde of wild monkeys.

    SS Bajwa suffered serious head injuries when he fell from the
    first-floor terrace of his home on Saturday morning trying to
    fight off the monkeys.

    The city has long struggled to counter its plague of monkeys,
    which invade government complexes and temples, snatch food
    and scare passers-by.

    The High Court ordered the city to find an answer to the
    problem last year.

    One approach has been to train bands of larger, more ferocious
    langur monkeys to go after the smaller groups of Rhesus macaques.

So it begins. Next they'll league together and decide "Ape shall not 
kill ape."

-- 
Sean O'Hara <http://diogenes-sinope.blogspot.com>
It never should have been Edgar. It should have been Kim.
   --Stephen King