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B8 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Shoplifting sister shows no remorse for actions
seem to get it. Would it be wrong
of me to tip off the security guard
on our next shopping trip? I want
her to learn a lesson before it’s
too late. Yet, it could result in
juvenile detention and a fi nancial
burden on my parents.
I love my sister, but I’m wor-
ried her habit may lead to an
unfortunate adulthood. She
has had counseling in the past
for numerous issues, but she
either lies to her therapist or just
sits quietly and says nothing.
Please help me, Abby. — Sticky
Fingers
Dear Sticky Fingers: If you
do what you are contemplating
and your sister fi nds out you
Dear Abby: I’m a 28-year-old
mother of two. My teenaged
adopted sister steals makeup
from stores. It sometimes hap-
pens when we are together, but
I never catch her doing it. She
has told me she feels no remorse
about stealing the items.
My parents and I have lec-
tured her time after time. She’s
now claiming her friends give her
makeup they don’t like. I’m exas-
perated because she just doesn’t
were the person who turned her
in, she will never forgive you
for it. I agree that the girl has
serious problems. That’s why I’m
advising you to tell your parents
what has been going on and let
them handle it. While my inclina-
tion would be to give her a dose
of tough love, it would be better
if it comes from your parents,
because they are responsible for
her.
Dear Abby: We didn’t ask
them to, but my parents recently
retired and moved from Vir-
ginia to Georgia to be close to
our family after our son — their
fi rst grandchild — was born.
The move down here was a huge
undertaking for them. It included
selling their home in Virginia
and building a new one here in
Georgia with the assumption that
in their old age they would never
have to move again.
The problem is, my husband
and I are considering a move to
a diff erent state to pursue career
opportunities for the better-
ment of our family. I feel awful
because it will mean my par-
ents may have to move again.
We currently live in a location
where they don’t know many
people, so I don’t think they will
want to stay after we leave. How
should we bring up the topic of
our potential move and discuss
it with them? — Moving in the
South
Dear Moving: If the opportu-
nities are better elsewhere, then
that’s where you should go. This
should not have been a deep,
dark secret. Tell your parents you
are considering another move
so they can make plans of their
own. They may want to move to
a location near you, back to Vir-
ginia where their friends are or to
a retirement community, where
they can form new friendships
and won’t be entirely dependent
upon you and your husband for
social contact, as they appar-
ently were when they moved
to Georgia.
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
With no tourist handouts, hungry Bali monkeys raid homes
the tall nutmeg trees and
leaping about the famous
Pura Bukit Sari temple, and
are considered sacred.
In normal times the pro-
tected jungle area in the
southeast of the Indonesian
island is popular among
local residents for wedding
photos, as well as among
international visitors. The
relatively tame monkeys can
be easily coaxed to sit on a
shoulder or lap for a peanut
or two.
Ordinarily, tourism is
the main source of income
for Bali’s 4 million resi-
dents, who welcomed more
than 5 million foreign vis-
itors annually before the
pandemic.
The Sangeh Monkey
Forest typically had about
6,000 visitors a month, but
as the pandemic spread last
year and international travel
dropped off dramatically,
that number dropped to
about 500.
Since July, when Indo-
nesia banned all foreign
travelers to the island and
shut the sanctuary to local
residents as well, there has
been nobody.
The Associated Press
SANGEH, Indonesia —
Deprived of their preferred
food source — the bananas,
peanuts and other goodies
brought in by tourists now
kept away by the corona-
virus — hungry monkeys
on the resort island of Bali
have taken to raiding vil-
lagers’ homes in their search
for something tasty.
Villagers in Sangeh
say the gray long-tailed
macaques have been ven-
turing out from a sanctuary
about 500 meters away
to hang out on their roofs
and await the right time to
swoop down and snatch a
snack.
Worried that the sporadic
sorties will escalate into
an all-out monkey assault
on the village, residents
have been taking fruit, pea-
nuts and other food to the
Sangeh Monkey Forest to
try to placate the primates.
“We are afraid that the
hungry monkeys will turn
wild and vicious,” villager
Saskara Gustu Alit said.
About 600 of the
macaques live in the forest
sanctuary, swinging from
Firdia Lisnawati/The Associated Press
A worker feeds macaques during a feeding time at Sangeh Monkey
Forest in Sangeh, Bali Island, Indonesia, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021.
Deprived of their preferred food source — the bananas, peanuts and
other goodies brought in by the tourists now kept away by the coro-
navirus — hungry monkeys on the resort island of Bali have taken to
raiding villagers’ homes in the search for something tasty.
Not only has that meant
nobody bringing in extra
food for the monkeys, the
sanctuary has also lost out
on its admission fees and
is running low on money
to purchase food for them,
said operations manager
Made Mohon.
The donations from vil-
lagers have helped, but
they are also feeling the
economic pinch and are
gradually giving less and
less, he said.
“This prolonged pan-
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demic is beyond our expec-
tations,” Made Mohon said,
“Food for monkeys has
become a problem.”
Food costs run about $60
a day, Made Mohon said,
for 440 pounds of cassava,
the monkeys’ staple food,
and 22 pounds of bananas.
The macaque is an omni-
vore and can eat a variety of
animals and plants found in
the jungle, but those in the
Sangeh Monkey Forest have
had enough contact with
humans over the years that
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NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
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Low: 22°
Wettest: 1.92”
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Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
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McKay Reservoir
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STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Sunday)
Grande Ronde at Troy
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder
Burnt River near Unity
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High: 97°
Low: 32°
Wettest: 0.04”
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Record-breaking temperatures on Sept. 7
included 101 at New York City. Two days
earlier, the same hot, dry air helped to
spread wildfi res in Michigan on Sept. 5,
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THU
AUBURN, Maine — A
Maine landlord arranged for
the rescue of 15 tarantulas
and one python that had
been left behind by a tenant.
Animal rescuer Drew
Desjardins was called to
the apartment Wednesday
in Auburn, the Sun Journal
reported.
He found that four of
19 tarantulas had died and
that the ball python did not
have water. Desjardins said
Thursday, Sept. 2, that he
took the surviving animals
back to his home and that
they were doing fi ne.
All the recovered ani-
mals are illegal in Maine
and will be relocated. There
was no word on whether the
tenant was being sought.
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Landlord fi nds 19
tarantulas, 1 python
left behind by tenant
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“That’s why I have urged
villagers here to come to the
forest to play with the mon-
keys and off er them food,”
he said. “I think they need
to interact with humans as
often as possible so that
they do not go wild.”
they seem to prefer other
things.
And they’re not afraid to
take matters into their own
hands, Gustu Alit said.
Frequently, monkeys
wander into the village and
sit on roofs, occasionally
removing tiles and dropping
them to the ground. When
villagers put out daily reli-
gious off erings of food on
their terraces, the monkeys
jump down and make off
with them.
“A few days ago I
attended a traditional cer-
emony at a temple near
the Sangeh forest,” Gustu
Alit said. “When I parked
my car and took out two
plastic bags containing food
and fl owers as off erings,
two monkeys suddenly
appeared and grabbed it all
and ran into the forest very
fast.”
Normally, the monkeys
spend all day interacting
with visitors — stealing
sunglasses and water bot-
tles, pulling at clothes,
jumping on shoulders —
and Gustu Alit theorizes
that more than just being
hungry, they’re bored.
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