This is funny but a lil of nightmare to the residents of an estate in Cape Town. Group of Baboons have been terrorizing residents of the estate and now they are scared to leave their houses.

Well, For the baboons it means swarming SAS style up the sheer sides of blocks of flats, prising open windows and plundering anything that is inside. Usually they just want food, but sometimes a flapping set of net curtains or a child’s cuddly toy bear can provide some added entertainment.

For the humans, the weapons of choice – given that their enemy is a protected species – tend to be paintball guns and pepper sprays. They have the momentary effect of driving the baboons away, but hunger and sheer nerve always bring them back.

As the pictures here show, these are the scenes which regularly affect life in Cape Town, South Africa, where man and baboon share a sometimes uncomfortable existence. Protected on the Cape Peninsula since 1999, there are now around 500 baboons living in 16 groups, increasingly cut off from their old, native habitats by the sprawling city.

The Cape now spends hundreds of thousands of pounds on schemes to monitor the baboons, including squads of rangers and a help hotline. Although it is illegal to kill the animals, dozens are injured or killed each year – some in accidents, but others from brutal attacks from people who have caught them ransacking their property.

http://www.theamebo.com/2013/08/baboon-burglars-kleptomaniac-monkeys.html

This is an Animal Kingdom. These Baboons no dey fear us at all. That's disrespectful. They should be charged for theft and trespassing.

An Estate in Cape Town? Why una build house inside Zoo na? I just hope that won't start stealing your babies from their cots or even money from ATM machines.

Can they steal our politicians? Just carry them away in the middle of the night...with NO TRACE!

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LOL, this is serious!

Shior, see these monkeys, lol