Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe 5 runaway monkeys caught, 10 still loose LAKELAND , Fla., June 18 (UPI) -- Florida wildlife officials said they have recovered five of the 15 Patas monkeys that escaped from a Polk County, Fla., wildlife sanctuary. Advertisement The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said three of the monkeys were caught last week only a few miles from the private animal sanctuary they fled from April 19, the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times reported Wednesday. "They hadn't gone far," commission spokesman Gary Morse said. Morse said trappers have set up "bait stations" to attempt to lull the monkeys into an eating routine that would make their capture easier. "It's taken longer than we had hoped for," Morse said. Lex Salisbury, chief executive of Lowry Park Zoo, said the monkeys had been given a home on a 1-acre island that was surrounded by a wide moat in the Safari Wild sanctuary; but the native African primates, which had been relocated from Puerto Rico, vanished from their new habitat within days. Advertisement Police: Thief threw burrito at clerk STOCKTON, Calif., June 18 (UPI) -- Authorities in San Joaquin County, Calif., say they are searching for a man who allegedly struck a store clerk with a frozen burrito and stole a bag of chips. San Joaquin County sheriff's deputies said the New Country Market clerk, who was not injured, told them the man became angry after he refused to lower the price of the $2 frozen burrito, KCRA-TV in Sacramento reported Wednesday. The man, who claimed to have only $1, threw the burrito at the clerk and fled the store with a bag of chips, the clerk told police. Police: Students left skull in apartment PHILADELPHIA, June 18 (UPI) -- Police said a human skull was found inside an apartment that had recently been vacated by a group of seven University of Pennsylvania students. Philadelphia police said an assistant manager of the apartment building found the skull on the kitchen counter after the students had left, WCAU-TV, Philadelphia, reported Wednesday. Investigators said they do not know which of the students left the skull behind and thus far there is no indication that a crime has been committed. Lt. Frank Vanore said the discovery makes "kind of a weird story," even for the Philadelphia police. He said the skull may have been used as a learning tool for a medical student or it may have been purposefully left in the kitchen as a prank. Advertisement Jeff Moran, a spokesman for the Philadelphia Medical Examiner's Office, said the skull will be analyzed by a forensic anthropologist. PETA letter sent to wrong town's officials OLMSTED FALLS, Ohio, June 18 (UPI) -- Officials in Olmsted Falls, Ohio, said a letter they received from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals should have been sent to nearby Olmsted Township. Olmsted Falls Mayor Robert Blomquist and the local City Council received a letter from PETA that urged them to outlaw use of bullhooks, electric prods and other objects used to cause pain to elephants ahead of a recent circus, WEWS-TV, Cleveland, reported Wednesday. However, the circus was actually held in Olmsted Township, which is governed by a separate group of officials. The event took place as planned Tuesday.
