Please don’t rub your eyes in disbelief, because that headline is as real as it gets. What, you’ve never hidden a tiny primate wearing a cute pink dress in your undergarments? Hasn’t everybody?
Whether you have or you haven’t, chances are that if you did, you probably didn’t smuggle said primate into a courtroom. Because that would just be wacky.
Just such a scenario took place in an Amherst, Va. court this past Thursday morning, when an unidentified woman, there for a hearing in Juvenile and Domestic Relations court, made reference to a daughter to while filling out some court-related paperwork.
An office worker inquired about the woman’s daughter and her whereabouts, and lo and behold, the woman pulled a baby marmoset out of her brassiere.
The marmoset, according to the woman, is just 7 weeks old, and is need of constant attention, which is why she brought it with her to the courthouse, tucked neatly away in her bra.
When an official asked why she had brought the monkey with her, the woman smartly replied…
“Well, would you leave your child at home? She has to be close to me.”
Which makes a lot of sense, except that it’s a monkey we’re talking about here. I’m guessing this woman, who named her marmoset “Cara,” has never heard of a cage…or common sense.
And the line of the day goes to the courthouse deputies, for their answer to the question of “who let the monkey get through the metal detector?”
“It wasn’t armed.”
[WAVY.com]
