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Two Americans Arrested for Terrifying Baby Monkey Punch in Reckless Promotional Stunt (essential-japan.com)

submitted 3 months ago by sundray@lemmus.org to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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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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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I thought they were arrested for doing a move called a baby monkey punch that was terrifying at first.

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[–] bampop@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 child)

At least there was no punching of baby monkeys involved so I'm slightly less outraged than expected

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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

It's a bad headline. It really needs a "Named" between "Monkey" and "Punch".

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[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 2 points 3 months ago

Same lol, I was staring at the headline and the subtitle for a long time trying to parse together if there was a missing comma to figure out the context

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