Last Saturday night, 13th August, police in California received an emergency services call when it was disturbingly and abruptly cut off.
Dispatchers at San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office tried to reach the number again, but they could not get through.
With some further digging, the address took them to Conservation Ambassadors’ Zoo to You near the city of Paso Robles. Officers quizzed staff on who had placed the call but everyone denied it.
Then the zoo staff remembered what had happened earlier and found their culprit – Route, the Capuchin monkey.
Route had picked up the zoo’s phone from the golf cart, used to get around the 16ha zoo more efficiently.
The police said on Facebook: “Was someone trying to make us look like a monkey’s uncle?”
“We’re told Capuchin monkeys are very inquisitive and will grab anything and everything and just start pushing buttons,” said San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office.
“And that’s what Route did… just so happened it was in the right combination of numbers to call us.”
That’s really what you call monkeying around.
