Accident while chasing a monkey at Fujikawa train station in Japan: The animal had to be stunned with a stun shot – however, the stun arrow did not hit the monkey, but a woman.
As the television station “Nippon TV” reported on Tuesday, the woman had notified the Fuji city government in Tokyo’s neighboring Shizuoka province. For example, a monkey would hang around Fujikawa station. A contractor then set out on behalf of the city.
Good plan, bad execution
The plan: stun and capture the animal. The execution: bad. Because when the man loaded the pistol with the stun arrow, he accidentally hit the trigger. The arrow hit the woman in the arm, the anesthetic was released, the victim became unconscious and had to go to hospital. But she has recovered, they say.
In particular, the contents of the arrow would have been enough to take out a 15 kilogram monkey. The municipality is now investigating how such a disruption can be prevented in the future.
Mysterious attacks of monkeys
In the industrialized island kingdom of Japan, much of which is mountainous and forested, encounters between wild animals such as bears or wild boars and humans are rare, although monkeys are rare. The incidents in the southwestern town of Yamaguchi were also puzzling recently, as Japanese macaques repeatedly attacked and snapped residents – mainly small children and the elderly. No one was seriously injured, according to local media reports.
Source: Krone
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