STOMPer Clare would like to warn Singaporeans that monkeys are getting more bold and dangerous. The STOMPer spotted two monkeys picking out garbage at a bus stop next to Pine Grove condominium on Ulu Pandan and recalls how her son was attacked by a group of them.

In her email, Clare said:

"I was driving my husband to work after dropping my son off. It was during peak hour at 8.10am, the traffic was busy with lots of people walking about when we stopped.

"We stopped next to a bus stop right outside Pine Grove condominium on Ulu Pandan Road and there I spotted these two monkeys having a leisurely breakfast at the bus stop!

"With the 'Disney-fication' of animals making them 'bambi' appealing and humanizing them with emotions we forget animals are wild, feral, and very dangerous!

"My sister who lives in a house off Jalan Jurong Kechil, a well developed private housing estate is being terrorized by monkeys who come into her house.

"Now she and her neighbours cannot keep their windows and doors open at any time. The authorities will only come in if you have trapped the monkey in your home, and remove it.

"I have told my sister to buy some predator urine from the zoo to put in her garden!

"Besides that, my son was attacked by a troop of them when I was with him on a school trip when he was six at the Bukit Timah Nature Reserve. He was eating a plain bread roll and they came up to him and would have jumped on him if I didn't take the roll away and throw it at them!

"Another friend tells me she has observed them boldly going up to handbags left on benches, unzipping them to explore what's in them.

"And I watched a documentary where a troop of one type of monkey hunted the baby of another breed, caught it, tore it to pieces and ate it - monkeys eat other monkeys outside of their breed.

"So pass this along, never ever encourage them by feeding them and don't go near them. Monkeys are not CUTE!"