Monkey
Aug 21 2008, Zach P

When a JR Tokyo station platform attendant was shot at close-range during a dispute amidst early morning rush hour back in 2004, the suspect’s clean getaway from police could probably be attributed to the fact that within the orchestrated chaos of...

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A monkey perches on top of a departure board at Tokyo Railway Toyoko Line’s Shibuya Station in Tokyo Wednesday morning, Aug. 20, 2008. The animal later climbed down and dashed out of the station, evading scores of net-wielding policemen to escape.