Wild monkey loose in Japanese subway eludes police
A monkey is on the loose in Shibuya Station.
“It’s a monkey - it’s not like it did anything bad,” a police spokesman said, adding that the animal was still on the loose.Monkey eludes net-wielding police at Tokyo station (via Japan Probe)The monkey was spotted hopping around by the automatic ticket gates at a train line in Shibuya Station in central Tokyo at about 9:40 a.m. .
It then ran downstairs to the entrance to another line, climbed up and down a pillar and ran around the ticketing machines before taking refuge on top of a train information board for two hours, a spokeswoman for railway operator Tokyu Corp said.
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