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KUALA LUMPUR – A Malaysian man who lost his mobile phone later found a series of selfies and a video left on the phone by an unusual thief: a macaque.
Sharing his experience in a Twitter post, 20-year-old Zackrydz Rodzi said he had just woken up from a nap at home last Saturday (September 12) when he realized his phone was missing. He searched everywhere in the house for the phone, but all he could find was the cover under the bed.
“If it was stolen by a thief, why would the thief leave the case and take off with the phone?” he wrote on his Twitter thread.
He later told the BBC that he decided to call his phone again after his father noticed a monkey outside his house on Sunday, and that’s when he heard it ringing from the jungle a few steps beyond the backyard. The phone was found muddy under a palm tree.
“I went through my phone gallery and found out that my phone was ‘stolen’ by a monkey,” he tweeted.
In a video that has been retweeted more than 5,000 times, the monkey appeared to be staring at the camera against the background of green leaves. In some photos, he was seen trying to eat the phone.
Zackrydz, who according to the BBC is a senior computer science student from Batu Pahat in the southern state of Johor, said he suspected the monkey had entered through an open window in his brother’s bedroom.
“This is not something you see every century,” he tweeted.
“I don’t know how long the monkey has been living in my neighborhood, but … monkey, you have made my life miserable for two days.”
Zackrydz is apparently not the only victim whose monkey had been stolen, as local media reported that he had previously stolen the mobile phones of two other people in the neighborhood.
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