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Two Americans Arrested for Terrifying Baby Monkey Punch in Reckless Promotional Stunt (essential-japan.com)

submitted 16 hours ago by sundray@lemmus.org to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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"Punch" is the name of the adorable baby monkey. There was no violence, thankfully. All of the animals are unharmed.

And the point of this idiocy?

It was later revealed that this appalling stunt was orchestrated purely as a promotional gimmick for a cryptocurrency meme coin.

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[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 32 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

I thought they punched a baby monkey, which terrified observers.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Like, punching a monkey is already bad but specifically throwing a baby monkey punch at a baby monkey is next level evil. Like how do you even practice such a punch to begin with, you'd have to.... Oooh!

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 0 points 3 hours ago

That's not what happened, but it doesn't explain why the monkeys face is bloody in the photo

[–] MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

I thought it meant a monkey was punching a baby but it got scared by the stunters (is this a word?)

[–] wieson@feddit.org 5 points 9 hours ago

I hate english headlines. I can almost never parse the meaning