LOPBURI — A long-tailed macaque got an early start on the bad stuff yesterday morning and went on a drunken bender that ended 24 hours later in death by alcohol poisoning.
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The unnamed monkey was already three sheets to the wind on lao khao (rice whiskey) when it was spotted by som tam vendor Lamoon Panpetch, who saw him fall off a roof Wednesday morning, stumble around a bit, then hide in a corner near her stall.
Some humans staged an intervention and tried to get help for the plastered primate, but it was too late. The drunk monkey died Thursday morning at a livestock facility where it was sent for help.
