Escaped monkey tussles with Walmart worker in Ohio parking lot

LANCASTER, Ohio, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- An Ohio shopper captured video of an escaped monkey scuffling with a Walmart employee before being reclaimed by an owner in the store's parking lot.

A video posted to Facebook by Richelle Stewart shows the monkey struggling with a Walmart employee by the cart return station in the Lancaster store's parking lot Sunday evening.

A woman, apparently the monkey's owner, runs up and pulls the two apart.

"Let him go, let him go, let him go! If he bites you, they will put him down," the woman says.

The woman and monkey then return to a nearby camper, which the primate apparently escaped from earlier.

A Walmart representative told KSN-TV the monkey did not bite the employee and the woman was "grateful" to the worker for catching her unusual pet.

The Ohio Department of Agriculture said it is working to identify the woman to determine whether she is an Ohio resident and, if so, whether her monkey is properly registered.