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Two Americans Arrested for Terrifying Baby Monkey Punch in Reckless Promotional Stunt (essential-japan.com)
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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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[–] 38 points 3 months ago (7 children)

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

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

    No, you just hate illiterate people who write English headlines.

    Should be,

    Two Americans Arrested for Terrifying the Baby Monkey, "Punch," in Reckless Promotional Stunt

    The addition of the two commas, the word "the" and quotes around the word "punch" are grammatically necessary and change the meaning of the sentence.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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!

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

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

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