Monkey sentenced to life after boozy rampage

published 15 April 2021

An alcoholic monkey in northern India has been sentenced to life of solitary confinement in a zoo after injuring 250 pedestrians when his supply of booze ran out. Liberty Times reports that the six-year-old pet monkey, named Kalua, indiscriminately attacked people across the Mirzapur district. The authorities said Kalua was formerly owned by an “occultist” who routinely supplied him with booze.

Giant Monopoly board found under carpet

A couple who ripped up old carpet in their home have discovered a giant Monopoly board painted underneath. The board features chance boxes, a jail, a community chest, railway stations and of the game’s other classic destinations. A photo of the board has attracted more than 1,900 comments on Reddit. Monopoly was created in 1903, when the anti-monopolist Lizzie Magie set out to create a game that would explain the single-tax theory of political economist Henry George.

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Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.

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