Wild Monkey Chase

TOKYO (AP) - Tokyo's most-wanted fugitive continues to evade the
police.
Said fugitive slips urban dragnets, climbs along powerlines and
makes a nuisance of itself in public, but police shouldn't be
surprised -- the culprit is a wild monkey.
The red-faced primate first leapt to the national stage in
August, when it showed up in a train station and gazed down at the
crowd from atop a schedule board. The monkey deftly escaped dozens
of police and dashed into a park.
Since then, the monkey has been sighted repeatedly around Tokyo.
But the animal always manages to slip away before police can catch
it.
Authorities suspect the monkey hitched a train ride from nearby
mountains into the Japanese capital.

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