Pascal Oparada
A Malaysian man who lost his phone found it full of Monkey selfies and video of the animal he believes stole the device after retrieving it from a jungle near their house, CNN reports.
Zackrdyz Rodzi thinks the animal had stolen the phone when he fell asleep.
Rodzi shared the images and video of the animal on social media which have since gone viral.
The pictures show the animal starring into the lens of the camera while the video shows the animal trying to push the phone into its mouth in apparent move to eat the device.
Rodzi said he realised his phone was missing when he woke up on Sunday morning.
“There was no sign of robbery. The only thing on my mind was is it some kind of sorcery,” he told the BBC.
He said it was not until the following day his uncle saw a Monkey nearby and after dialing the phone discovered it lying under a palm tree just beyond their back garden.
His uncle suggested that there could be a picture of the thief in the phone and so when they opened the phone gallery, they saw it was full of money selfies.
“Something that you might see once in a century,” he tweeted when sharing the images and videos.
He also shared some of the images and videos in a TikTok post, calling the monkey a “sneaky little hairy toyol”, an undead baby used in witchcraft to commit theft and mischief in south east Asian folklore.
In a follow up tweet, he joked: “Hey @Apple I need a new phone since im giving mine to the monkey.”
