AR-News: (AU) Monkey robs glasses, bites cop

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http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,8687414%255E1702,00.html 

>From correspondents in Calcutta
February 14, 2004

A SENIOR police officer has lost part of his ear after it was bitten off by a 
monkey near the eastern Indian city of Calcutta.

Rathin Thakur, an assistant commissioner of police, was attacked by the 
monkey on his way to work Thursday in Belgharia, 20km north of Calcutta, police 
official S. Dutta said. 
Thakur, 56, waved at a group of monkeys sitting on a rooftop and the gesture 
prompted one of them to jump on his shoulder and snatch his glasses, Mr Dutta 
said. 
The monkey tore off part of his right ear as Thakur tried to retrieve his 
glasses, he said. 
Local residents had complained to police earlier the monkeys had become a 
threat to people in the neighbourhood. 

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not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.",
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