印度猴子向路人撒錢散財
A monkey in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh has rained down banknotes on people, reports say.
Surprised holidaymakers in the scenic pine forest of Shimla, the state capital, ran around, collecting the falling notes for nearly an hour on Sunday, eyewitnesses said.
Reports said the simian stole 10,000 rupees ($165; ￡100) from a nearby home.
The monkey had entered the house to look for food, but when it did not find anything to eat, it took the money.
There are some 300,000 monkeys in the state and Shimla has long been a haven for the animals.
Macaque monkeys are considered sacred by Hindus, who often feed them.
But in recent years, the animals have been coming increasingly in conflict with humans, destroying crops, attacking people for food and biting children. And authorities in Himachal Pradesh have declared monkeys a menace.
The cash-dispensing simian was first spotted sitting on a tin roof with a bundle of currency notes before it playfully started throwing them down one-by-one.
As people began collecting notes of various denominations, the monkey moved on to a tree.
But as it continued to distribute money, many people rushed there to pick up the falling notes.
"Surprised by the attention it was attracting, the cash loaded monkey then decided to move into the thick pine trees. But as it continued to shower notes, the money collectors naturally followed it," said Amit Kanwar who witnessed the entire scene.
This is the second such incident in Shimla this year - in February too, a monkey stole a wad of currency notes from a home and distributed it among people on a crowded street.據英國廣播公司9月2日報道，印度北部喜馬偕爾邦（Himachal Pradesh）的一隻猴子向人們撒錢。
週日（31日），喜馬偕爾邦首府西姆拉的風景勝地松樹林裏，不敢相信眼前景象的遊客正到處奔跑去抓飄落下來的紙幣。目擊者稱，時間持續了近一個小時。
報道稱猴子從附近居民家偷了1萬盧比（合165美元），猴子溜進房子本想找點吃的，但發現一無所獲後拿了錢。
在這個邦約有30萬隻猴子，西姆拉一直是動物天堂。
獼猴在印度人眼中是神物，印度人經常會給它們餵食。
但最近幾年，動物開始與人類發生衝突，毀壞莊稼，爲搶食襲擊人類，咬傷兒童。喜馬偕爾邦政府如今已經將猴子列爲一大威脅。
撒錢的猴子一開始拿着一把現金坐在一個白鐵皮屋頂上，然後像開玩笑似的把錢一張張扔下去。
在人們開始去撿不同面額的紙幣時，猴子又跑到了樹上。
猴子在樹上繼續撒錢，人們就跑過去抓飄落的紙幣。
“沒想到吸引瞭如此多人，猴子帶着錢跑到了茂密的松樹林裏。它繼續撒錢，撿錢的人們自然又追了上去。”目擊了全過程的阿米特·坎瓦爾（Amit Kanwar）說。
這是西姆拉今年第二次發生這樣的事了，第一次是在二月份，一隻猴子從居民家偷了一卷鈔票在人潮擁擠的大街上向人羣撒去。
