SLO County Sheriff’s Office receives a surprising call 

The primate suspect Route, a capuchin monkey, who caused the monkey business.

Business as usual turned wild and weird

– On Saturday, August 13, the San Luis Obispo Sheriff’s Office received a strange 911 emergency call that disconnected, but when dispatchers tried to reach the number again there was no response.

Deputies were sent to investigate and traced the call back to the offices of Zoo to You near Paso Robles, however nobody there had placed the call.

The office surmised that the zoo’s capuchin monkey named Route had placed the call after it snagged the zoo’s cell phone from a golf cart.

“We’re told capuchin monkeys are very inquisitive and will grab anything and everything and just start pushing buttons.” The office shared in a social media statement on Facebook.

Just like how monkeys on a typewriter might accidentally write a novel, Route had by chance managed to dial for emergency services by sheer coincidence.