Baboons rampaging around Sydney escaped from “research facility”
<p>Sydney came to a standstill as three baboons were spotted running around Royal Prince Alfred Hospital yesterday.</p>
<p>The male baboon was being transported for a vasectomy at the hospital and made a break for freedom with his two wives, causing panic within the hospital grounds.</p>
<p>Expert handlers from Taronga Zoo were called in once police sealed off the entrance to a car park so the baboons couldn’t escape.</p>
<p>An eye-witness to the incident called 2GB’s Ben Fordham, explaining the situation with awe.</p>
<p>“I’m deadset serious. I’m at RPA, I’m six floors up and I just happened to gaze out at the carpark … and there were three baboons in the carpark.</p>
<p>“I’m deadset serious they even had shiny red bottoms … (they were) running around the carpark.</p>
<p>“Mate I’m deadset. I had a coffee an hour ago and I thought ‘what have they put in this coffee’ Even the nurses here have gone ‘my god’.”</p>
<p>NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard said he found the escape hard to believe.</p>
<p>“I thought I had seen just about everything as Health Minister in NSW, but a baboon threesome hightailing around RPA Hospital like there is no tomorrow?” Mr Hazzard joked to<span> </span><em><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/baboon-spotted-running-around-royal-prince-alfred-hospital-grounds-in-sydney/news-story/d37394a46d5089d7678267b713d23ecf" target="_blank">The Daily Telegraph</a></em>.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">"Should I ring the police? No, I'll ring <a href="https://twitter.com/BenFordham?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BenFordham</a>." A witness to Sydney's baboon break-out describes the unbelievable sight! 😂 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/9Today?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#9Today</a> <a href="https://t.co/7P2ygqo6FZ">pic.twitter.com/7P2ygqo6FZ</a></p>
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<p>“There are three baboons who were being transported from their normal colony and the first advice is that there was a failure in the door of the crate inside the truck and they’ve gone into a carpark,” Mr Hazard explained before the animals were sedated and recaptured.</p>
<p>Police told <em><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/baboon-on-the-loose-hospital-sydney-police-told/5e9ddeaf-410b-4581-82ad-faa461cf9c83" target="_blank">nine.com.au</a> </em>officers were on the scene outside Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.</p>
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<p>"Just after 5.30 pm officers from inner west police area command were called to a car park on Missenden Road and Lucas Street, Camperdown, after reports three baboons escaped while being transported," a NSW police spokeswoman said.</p>
<p>"They are currently contained and police are working with experts to safely return them to their facility.</p>
<p>"There is no immediate danger to the public but people are advised to avoid the area."</p>
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