{"id":28344,"date":"2025-10-30T21:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T21:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/28344\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T21:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T21:03:08","slug":"monkey-seen-swinging-from-the-rafters-in-plano-halloween-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/28344\/","title":{"rendered":"Monkey seen swinging from the rafters in Plano Halloween store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shoppers at a Spirit of Halloween store got quite the surprise when a monkey was seen swinging from the rafters on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Plano police were called to the store after shoppers spotted the monkey.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In body camera video from one of the responding officers, you can see the monkey swinging back and forth between the store&#8217;s rafters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Shocked onlookers took video of the scene, which has now gone viral.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Plano police said the money&#8217;s owner was inside the store when the animal slipped away. The owner was eventually able to entice the monkey back to them with a cookie.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At that point, the monkey was secured by the owner and no charges were filed. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shoppers at a Spirit of Halloween store got quite the surprise when a monkey was seen swinging from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[987,160,162,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-28344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-halloween","9":"tag-plano","10":"tag-plano-headlines","11":"tag-plano-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28344","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=28344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}