I know it can be frustrating when baristas get your coffee order wrong, but sicking your pet monkey on the offending baristas is never the right thing to do.
An Alabama Starbuck's employee opened the drive-thru window to help a customer, and one of the customers' monkeys leapt from the customer's car, attacking the employee.
Yes, that reads "one of the customers' monkeys."
From Lagniappe Mobile:
'I was working in the drive-through when the lady came through with [two] monkeys in her car,' she said. 'I had never interacted with her before and had her drink ready. They pulled up to the window and as soon as she rolled down her window, one monkey just jumped out and up to my hand and started [gnawing] on my hand.'
The employee said the staff was in shock because they weren't expecting the monkey to jump from the car. She said the monkey began biting harder and hitting her, then ran up her arm and jumped onto her head.
'It bit my ear,' she said. 'I don't remember this, but one of my coworkers took it off my head and threw it out the window.'
I bet they don't put that in the job description in the Starbuck employee handbook.
"May be required to throw wild monkeys out of the drive-thru window."
Here's a picture of the offending critter:
The attacked happened at 8:30 a.m. on January 10.
'It was discovered that another employee was able to pull the monkey from the employee,' MPD Public Information Officer Blake Brown said. 'The monkey then re-entered the customer's vehicle before the customer drove away.'
Animal services instructed the employee to immediately go in to her healthcare provider for lab work and rabies vaccinations. She also had to get stitches in her ear.
The employee said the head of Starbuck's corporate claims department contacted her personally about the event, unable to believe it actually happened.
'He was like, "Seriously? I want to make sure I'm reading this right,'" she said. 'He said he looked at my location and said there wouldn't be anything like this.'
The city fined the owner of the monkeys two municipal infractions for not securing her pets: $25 for each monkey.
Starbucks also officially banned the monkeys from entering any Starbucks building in the future, which probably should have been the rule in the first place.
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