NFT: Man Shoots Wife, Mistakes Her for Monkey
 

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A Malaysian man shot and killed his wife after he mistook her for a monkey picking fruit in a tree behind their house, the New Straits Times said on Wednesday.

The man, 70, is being held by police for causing death through recklessness after he fired a shotgun at what he thought was a monkey in a mangosteen tree on Monday, the newspaper said.

His wife, 68, had used a ladder to climb into the tree and was picking the tropical fruit when she was shot. She was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital, the paper said. The couple lived in central Malaysia and had raised 13 children.

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OK, guys, now there's precedence... Just ask your spouse to go climb a tree!

;)

I guess the ladder being up the tree didn't clue the guy off. :shrug:

Yea, because monkeys can't use ladders?:rolleyes:

I was assuming the monkey probably had to get the ladder from out of the garage and set it up in the tree. My bad I guess.

Great. Now a bunch of the neo-cons will be collecting cash to buy Denise a fruit tree...