MERRITT ISLAND, Fla., Oct. 2 (UPI) -- Mookie the Monkey is on house arrest after police said the 19-year-old domesticated Capuchin bit a Florida man on the shin.
Mookie's owner, Brad Berman of Merritt Island, Fla., said the pair were out on the town Saturday when a man and woman who were about to go surfing spotted Mookie and asked if they could pet him. Berman gave permission, but a car pulled into the parking lot, apparently startling the animal, prompting him to bite the man in the shin, breaking the skin, Florida Today reported.