Diaper-Wearing Monkey Attacks Man in Walmart Parking Lot

A Walmart employee was attacked by a diaper-wearing monkey in the store's parking lot.

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Walmart’s parking lot has become the site of yet another unusual animal sighting after a monkey in a diaper was caught on video attacking a man in Lancaster, Ohio over the weekend.

Video of the hairy incident was posted Sunday on Facebook by Richelle Stewart and has reached over 340,000 views so far. In it a Walmart employee is seen pulling on the pet monkey who had climbed on top of shopping cart in the shopping cart corral. A woman is seen running up to them shouting, "Let him go, let him go, let him go!" before pushing the employee away and grabbing ahold of the monkey. "If he bites you, they will put him down," the woman is heard telling the employee while walking off into the sunset hand-in-hand with her precious primate.

The LancasterEagle-Gazettereported the monkey split from its owner's RV at around 7:50 Sunday.  

"I saw the monkey and he was just standing on the carts," Stewart toldNBC4. "The monkey had escaped from a nearby camper. And we saw the cart guy from Walmart coming over to help her."

Fortunately for the Walmart employee, he wasn't bitten or injured in the attack and didn't need medical assistance afterward. The Eagle-Gazette also reported the Department of Agriculture was looking into whether or not the monkey was purchased legally. No charges were pressed against the monkey's owner.

Last week 30,000 bees swarmed a Walmart parking lot during a bee sale gone wrong, and before that a cowboy on a horse caught a thief with his lasso.

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