FRED KEEPS RIGHT ON SNATCHING PEOPLE'S BELONGINGS

Fred [“Fred’s Car Burglary Gang” (11-25-09)] is in the news again. One Daily Mail reader wrote: "Same thing happens in Liverpool [England] all the time......."

CAUGHT IN THE ACT: THE BABOON BAG-SNATCHER CRAFTILY RAIDING BRITISH TOURISTS’ CAR
By Daily Mail Foreign Service

Mail Online
April 23, 2010

Here's one cheeky monkey in definite need of an Asbo (that’s an Anti-Social Baboon Order).

This cunning adult male, known as Fred, strolled up to a car, opened the door and hopped in the back before making off with a handbag - to the shock of the British tourists inside.



The bag belongs to Hazel Murray, 71, who was on holiday with her brother George Cox and his wife Jacqueline in South Africa.



They were visiting Miller’s Point, near Cape Town, when Fred - who has become so used to humans that he has learned how to get into their vehicles in search of food - swung into action.

‘I looked in the rear view mirror and this huge baboon was sitting on the back seat next to my sister,’ said Mr Cox, 60, from Bridport, Dorset. ‘It was massive and its teeth were huge.’

Luckily for Mrs Murray, she was reunited with her bag after Fred inspected the contents and then discarded it after deciding there was nothing worth eating.