A Walmart employee out to move a few shopping carts around found himself on the wrong end of a bizarre encounter with a diaper-wearing monkey, in an incident captured on video.
The video, which was shared on Facebook Sunday, shows the monkey grabbing at the employee while perched on a cart return corral in the parking lot of a Walmart in Lancaster, Ohio. The monkey can be heard screeching during the short battle.
Moments after the scuffle begins, a blonde-haired woman runs in to separate the monkey and the man, screaming: "Let him go! Let him go! Let him go!" She then takes the animal by the hand and leads it away, but not before scolding the employee for putting her pugnacious primate at risk.
"If he bites you they'll put him down," she snaps at the man in the video.
The woman does not apologize or look back as she walks off with the monkey, which can be seen toddling along beside her.
The video was shot from inside a vehicle in the parking lot. After the encounter, a man in the vehicle can be heard telling the bewildered employee: "Man, you could've gotten hurt."
It's not the first monkey-and-retail incident to make headlines in recent years. Back in 2012, a baby monkey in a faux shearling coat was photographed at an Ikea in Toronto. The animal, named Darwin, did not harm anyone in the incident, which spawned countless memes online.
The Walmart monkey does not have Darwin's fashion sense, as it appears to only be wearing a diaper.
Judging by the way it was reaching for the Walmart employee's reflective poncho, however, it may have been looking to accessorize.
