BOSTON’S LOGAN AIRPORT STAFF SHOCKED TO FIND MUMMIFIED MONKEYS IN LUGGAGE
There are times when headlines grab your attention because of their random power and you can’t help but wonder if the words you’re seeing could possibly be true. If you’re reading this, you understand exactly what I’m talking about. Because in what possible world would you expect to hear about mummified monkeys being intercepted anywhere, never mind Boston’s Logan Airport? But it seems that this is now a part of our collective reebolaality, though I’m hesitant to call it even remotely normative. But yes, someone was literally traveling with a bag full of monkeys that got the pharaoh treatment.
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MUMMIFIED MONKEYS WERE CERTAINLY NOT FRIED FISH, LIKE TRAVELLER CLAIMED
But no, the flight wasn’t coming from Egypt. The mummified monkeys were in a piece of luggage on a flight from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Airport security officers as Logan certainly have something odd to add to their list of random experiences on the job. I can only imagine their reaction when they opened up the bag and saw the above. But in person! 4, dessicated and totally dead monkey bodies, staring emptily wherever their dry sockets happened to be pointed. And if you’re wondering why anyone would have mummified monkeys let alone travel with them, you’re not going to be comfortable with the answer.
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The man who brought them in said he was bringing in “dried fish.” But mummified monkeys are something entirely different. When questioned, the man explained that these dried out corpses were “for his own consumption.” Now I’m only somewhat worldly, but I’ve never heard of anyone eating dried monkey meat (on the bone) before. The child in me is still pretty traumatized by “monkey brains” from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. But if you assume that mummified monkeys aren’t a legal import item, you’re spot on. They qualify as “bush meat,” or raw or minimally processed meat.
That’s the kind of thing that can give people Ebola!
