Final Update, Sunday afternoon: The saga ends for #pdxmonkey, and the #pdxtmt (PDX Twitter! MonkeyWatch! Team!) can go into retirement. According to @fox12oregon, the final monkey was captured at 2 p.m. Sunday on the OHSU primate center campus.
Update Three, Sat eve: From The O: Two loose monkeys captured; last escaped primate now surrounded. End of #monkeypocalypse nigh? (“One little monkey, standing alone…”)
Update Two, Sat noon: As of Saturday noon, 1 of the 4 remaining monkeys has been captured. Just three to go before monkeygate is over. (via @KATUNews)
Update One: Sat morn: Morning update: Four monkeys still on the loose in Beaverton, according to KGW; Fox12 Oregon now says that OHSU is claiming 3 of 4 monkeys spotted on campus as of 8:45 am.
You’ve heard about the Monkey Business in Beaverton, right? From KGW News – OHSU warns of escaped monkeys outside Beaverton campus:
Oregon Health and Science University issued a warning Friday evening after five monkeys escaped from its Oregon National Primate Research Center in Beaverton.
Jim Newman with OHSU said the group of males escaped while their cages were being cleaned around 1:00 p.m.
One of those monkeys was captured around 8:00 p.m.
That means 4 monkeys are still unaccounted for as of 12:35 am (as far as we know, anyway.) Monkeys! Are On the Loose! Alert the Media! Or at least rally the Twitter troops…
As soon as the story broke, the witticisms started on Twitter:
@ahockley: This whole #pdxmonkey thing just reinforces my belief that this town is being taken over by damn dirty apes.
@verso: I’ll tell you what’s going on with the #pdxmonkeys: Here they come, walkin down the street…
@PAgent: We’ve had possums, ‘coons, herons, and coyotes in our neighborhood. But monkeys? In Beaverton? It’s the Apocalypse, people.
@jabancroft: @turoczy You don’t understand. I live a couple miles from the monkey escape. And I’m home all alone. And I’m terrified of monkeys. Hold me.
Even KPTV’s Wayne Garcia got into the act once someone created the @pdx_monkey Twitter account:
WayneGarciaKPTV @pdx_monkey KPTV wants the exclusive. We can negotiate your capture.
I appointed myself the equivalent of poor KPTV reporter Mark Glyzewski, who always gets stuck out in Troutdale during ice storms.
(So there were no ice storms? So I didn’t have to go to Troutdale, but could sit here in front of my computer with a glass of wine? Shhhh..we took a page from the big boys with their ‘LIVE!’ reports and manufactured the perception of live team coverage, people. It’s all about the illusion, no?)
I went into complete team coverage mode. Of course, our own Aaron, coined the Twitter hashtag to track said coverage: #pdxtmt (Twitter Monkey Team – as opposed to the year-round coverage you get from the Twitter Storm Team, of course – also coined by Aaron and @verso, I believe.)
See my coverage on the @ourpdx Twitter stream. To see what other PDX people had to say, see these hashtags: pdxmonkey, pdxmonkeys, or my favorite — monkeypocalypse (with a hat tip to @theonetruebix).
We’ll resume our live team coverage tomorrow morning….
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Tagalus links for the hashtags:
#pdxtmt, #monkeypocalypse, #pdxmonkey
Oh … *primate* research lab … I thought it was *prime rate* research lab. That explains the lack of interest.
@Ed Oh HAHAHA Ed. Nice.
Ha.
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