Monkey Saves Puppy, But Not From China Explosion

An explosion in Nanjing last week killed 13 people and injured hundreds more. The explosion was accidental, caused by workers accidentally breaching a propylene pipeline.

This story, however, has been inspiring in one regard -- a photo that emerged of a monkey saving a puppy.

The photo was tweeted by user sinyi88, who claimed the monkey was rescuing the dog from the blast.

Unfortunately, it looks like this story isn't true. The photo has been circulating the Internet for several years, with March 10, 2006, as the earliest discovered instance. Still -- not a bad image to keep in mind when disaster strikes!

(via Best Week Ever)

Comments

[Andrew Hallam]

04:08 PM on 08/11/2010

That monkey was just saving lunch!

[PelePele10]

01:28 AM on 08/11/2010

We need more monkey's in the world like this one. Not the Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin types...bad for humanity.

[M Miles]

02:12 PM on 08/09/2010

Lets see there is an octupus that knows many things? A monkey that saves puppies?
Now if there was some type of animal to oversee BP to make them do their job right? Maybe a hungry lion?!

It is too bad that one has to count on animals instead of the Federal Government. Although vacations are important. When it is time to vote; there will be many vacations handed out.

[FACTISFACT]

11:24 AM on 08/08/2010

My Friends see the miracle of comparison by GOD through the act of an animal saving a living being of different species that to having animosity.

Try to remember what we see and saw in our daily life and the recent past civilized people instead of trying to save own group in difficulties; least to speak of different species on the contrary was bent upon to kill them to gain prominence.

What should we call those people worse than the monkey or an animal?

[ebanks84]

02:44 PM on 08/07/2010

It's cute whenever it was taken :).

[JoeBayerSr]

11:39 AM on 08/07/2010

bush did it!

[JackiChan]

10:53 AM on 08/07/2010

Monkey's SAVE!

[jeffinmichigan]

10:43 AM on 08/07/2010

Very slow news day....

[floydcash]

10:40 AM on 08/07/2010

Why the hell would we be interested in seeing a cute little puppy being dragged off to his gruesome death at the hands of a vicious monkey? Try to not be so misleading HP. That picture is actually disturbing.

[sloreader]

06:46 PM on 08/07/2010

A little paranoid but you could be correct. Do you know the true back story? I'm not holding my breath for HP to provide same.

[WorldGoneWild]

10:16 AM on 08/07/2010

I feel like I just got punked by HP.

[DharmaRecruit]

10:34 AM on 08/07/2010

Phillies are one game out, baby! And nothin' feels better than beating the Mess in the process!

[BeBop33]

11:25 AM on 08/07/2010

GO PHIGHTIN'S!!!!!!

[Chuck Ott]

12:12 PM on 08/07/2010

Loving the Phillies come back this summer. What a great time to be a Phillies fan. Especially after all those lean years. Let's hope this fun continues.

[hellboundtrain]

10:10 AM on 08/07/2010

Another young citizen being carted off to the grinder.

[dscape]

09:54 AM on 08/07/2010

HP needs to fire their editor, or get one. 1 of the 2.
Oh wait, Jonathan Daniel Harris IS the editor. *facepalm*

[ray newman]

09:42 AM on 08/07/2010

Paternal instinct ! Take care of those who are more vunerable.

[sporty1]

09:37 AM on 08/07/2010

Unhand that dog, er monkey, whatever. Monkey eats dog.

[MadamRoma]

09:04 AM on 08/07/2010

The monkey was up to no good, someone should have slapped the pup-napping monkey and rescued the pup, instead of taking a picture and fabricating this absurd story.