Various news sources seem uncertain whether to treat the news of a man bringing a pygmy marmoset on a flight from Peru to NYC as a \"major health scare\" or as a silly news-of-the-weird piece.<\/p>\n
But the reason I'm mentioning this item is because of two throwaway asides in articles about it.<\/p>\n
First, from the New York Daily News<\/cite>'s \"Couldn't keep monkey biz under his hat<\/a>\":<\/p>\n Somehow [the man carrying the monkey] managed to avoid the eye of airline screeners at two airports.<\/p>\n Laura Uselding, a spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration, said that had the monkey been carrying weapons or explosives, an alarm would have triggered.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n I'm glad to hear that our nation is safe from the horrific risk of tiny monkeys carrying explosives. Your tax dollars at work! (If you're an American, that is.)<\/p>\n Second, from WCBS-TV's \"Major Health Scare After Monkey Sneaks Onto Plane<\/a>\":<\/p>\n Witnesses worried of an outbreak that could result from the monkey being out in the open. \"There may be worse things that could happen--it could grow into one of those big ones,\" one passenger said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n From the context, I'm guessing that \"it\" refers to the health risk, or something. But my first thought on reading that was, \"Yeah, I guess New York has had a problem with big monkeys<\/a> in the past.\"<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Various news sources seem uncertain whether to treat the news of a man bringing a pygmy marmoset on a flight…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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