Excuse me, sir, is that a monkey on your head?
NEW YORK: A man smuggled a monkey onto an airplane, stashing the small primate under his hat until passengers spotted it perched on his ponytail, an airline official in New York said.
On a flight from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to New York’s LaGuardia airport, people around the man noticed that a marmoset — which normally lives in forest and eats fruit and insects — had emerged from underneath his hat, Spirit Airlines spoksewoman Alison Russell said.
The man’s journey had begun in Lima, Peru.
“Other passengers asked the man if he knew he had a monkey on his head,” Russell said.
The monkey spent the remainder of the flight in the man’s seat and behaved well, said Russell. She did not know how the monkey skirted detection in Lima and during the man’s several-hour layover in Fort Lauderdale.
LaGuardia airport police were waiting for the man and his monkey when the plane landed.
The money was placed in quarantine.The man was taken in for questioning.
Ian Jarrett
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