Monkey Business Leads to Herd of Dead Goats

ABHA, 22 July 2006 — Once upon a time a farmer had a problem with some baboons. They would often raid his farm and eat from his crops. According to a report yesterday in the Al-Riyadh daily, the farmer decided to do something about it. So he put rat poison in pieces of fruit and placed them around his property. But the farmer had another little problem: For some reason he didn’t think that his goats would eat the fruit. Thus, due to the farmer’s lack of foresight, he poisoned his livestock. He did manage to save some of the goats by rushing the ill creatures to a veterinarian — but somewhere in the underbrush near his farm, the baboon scourge is poised for the next opportunity to raid the farmer’s crops.