Monkey Business

America has hit upon a novel new way of combating crime- monkeys. An elite American Swat team wants to train small monkeys as a cutting edge reconnaissance tool. The primates will be dressed in bullet-proof vests for the operations and will help officers with video and audio footage. It is suggested that the monkeys would be able to get into places no officer or robot could go and could help with all kinds of operations. "Everybody laughs about it until they really start thinking about it. It would change the way we do business," Mesa Officer Sean Truelove stated. The Department of Defence under the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency has already been contacted for funding. But with $100,000 needed to purchase, train and care for the monkey over a three year period, the project could face a potential banana skin.