Florida monkey snacks on woman's snail mail

Zeek the monkey probably missed his breakfast (Facebook/Sanford Police Department)
Zeek the monkey probably missed his breakfast (Facebook/Sanford Police Department)

Oh yes, wait a minute Mr Postman. There's a monkey eating my mail?

Florida police often have to deal with a lot of monkey business, but it's not every day they have to contain an actual monkey.

But that's what they had to do at 8am on Monday (local time), after a woman reported the animal in the Hidden Lakes subdivision of Sanford.

She said the monkey had been sitting on top of her mailbox snacking on her bills and letters.

The Sanford Police Department say when they arrived on the scene the monkey, which was later identified as someone's pet called Zeek, started to pull off parts of a patrol car.

Using a bit of ingenuity, the police were able to distract Zeek with a bottle of water to wash the mail down with until his owner arrived.

There is no word on how Zeek managed to escape from his owner.

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