NBC Dallas Fort Worth reported<\/a>.<\/p>\nFootage shows the monkey running along the top of shelves, scaling pillars and swinging from the ceiling.<\/p>\n
The monkey apparently got spooked by an animatronic decoration. NBC 5 DFW<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was animal kingdom live,\u201d said Arlene Pinkston, who filmed the bizarre spectacle while shopping with her daughters.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy daughter looked up and she said, \u2018What in the world?\u2019 and she\u2019s like, \u2018Is that a real monkey?\u2019 and I looked up and said, \u2018Well, it\u2019s got a diaper on so I guess it is real,\u2019\u201d Pinkston told the outlet, chuckling.<\/p>\n
The monkey apparently got spooked by one of Spirit Halloween\u2019s iconic animatronic decorations and ran from its owner, according to store employee Jimmy Harris.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was entertaining,\u201d Harris said. \u201cA lot of people just stood and watched it for like 30 minutes, the whole time, they were like, \u2018monkey,\u2019 and we had kids trying to catch it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Plano police were called to the scene and reported seeing the monkey \u201cswinging from the rafters wearing a diaper.\u201d<\/p>\n
The monkey was finally recaptured once its owner offered it a cookie, cops said. <\/p>\n
The monkey was finally caught after half an hour when its owner offered it a cookie. NBC 5 DFW<\/p>\n
The monkey stunned shoppers and staff at the Halloween store in Plano, Texas on Monday. NBC 5 DFW<\/p>\n
The monkey was no hurt during the ordeal, police said. NBC 5 DFW<\/p>\n
The monkey was not harmed and police said no shoppers were ever in\u00a0danger.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur team responded quickly and contacted local authorities, who arrived promptly on the scene. In a rather unexpected turn, the monkey was safely coaxed with a cookie,\u201d\u00a0 Spirit Halloween spokesperson Lisa Barr said in a statement. \u201cThe monkey was tagged with identification, and returned to its owner without incident.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re grateful to our staff and local responders for handling the situation swiftly and safely. While this is certainly not a typical day at Spirit Halloween, we\u2019re glad it ended on a positive note,\u201d Barr added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wild video shows a monkey in a diaper running loose inside a busy Spirit Halloween store in Texas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[987,19187,160,162,161,27,734,4501],"class_list":["post-27965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-halloween","tag-monkeys","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-texas","tag-us-news","tag-viral-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}