Tae Kwon Do monkeys attack master

[Ancalagon]

damn

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6825449/Taekwondo-monkeys-attack-trainer.html

Lo Wung, 42, taught the monkeys so they could entertain crowds outside a shopping centre in Nshi, in eastern China's Hubei province.

But the money-spinning primates turned the tables on their trainer when he slipped during a show, with one quick-thinking monkey flooring him with a kick to the head.

Hu Luang, 32, a bystander who photographed the incident, said: "I saw one punch him in the eye - he grabbed another by the ear and it responded by grabbing his nose. They were leaping and jumping all over the place. It was better than a Bruce Lee film."

At one point the monkey trainer grabbed a staff to hit the monkeys, only to find himself facing a stick-brandishing monkey that cracked him over the head.

He only managed to get the monkeys under control by tangling them up in the rope that had been used to stop them running off.

Mr Hu said: "He was really furious, he made the monkeys kneel on the ground with their hands tied behind their backs to punish them and make them show remorse for their nasty attack."

[Bregh]

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[Northcott]

Man... that's awesome! I only wish it was on YouTube!

I'm glad to hear that this didn't go spectacularly wrong, like the case of that orangutan mauling that poor woman in the States, but martial arts monkeys kicking the crap out of their master? That's made of awesome.

[AZRogue]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Man, I can only imagine how awesome that would have looked! Damn the fact that no one there YouTubed that shit! Hahahaha!

[Pigs in Space]

I'm more impressed by the idea that one can train an army of ninja monkeys.

[Northcott]

I'm more impressed by the idea that one can train an army of ninja monkeys.

Only so long as they are kept enslaved by The Rope! Otherwise they'll turn on you.

[Dacke]

Clear evidence that Monkey Style is superior.

[Radu]

I'm more impressed by the idea that one can train an army of ninja monkeys.

Interesting you should say that... in Japan, ninja clans really DID train monkeys, but not in martial arts. One of the best tricks in a ninja's arsenal was to hide, then use a signal to a monkey dressed in the same costume to cause a diversion. The monkey would run off, allowing the ninja to escape, and could be retrieved later or written off.

Tricks like this are one of the reasons ninjas are often described as having supernatural powers and shapeshifting abilities in Japanese tales.

[Droid101]

Probably would have been smarter to teach your monkey to fetch you beers rather than kick you in the face and beat you with sticks.