Hartlepool's monkey statue is to be given a sign explaining its background amid fears it could offend visitors.
The statue represents a monkey that was said to have been mistaken for a French spy and hanged in the early 1800s. The move follows a council report last year warning the figure could be "misused by those with differing agendas to portray Hartlepool as unfriendly towards foreigners".claimed a monkey was washed ashore having been the sole survivor of a French shipAccording to the story, people in the town convicted the animal of being a spy because they had never seen a Frenchman or a monkey.
Residents became known as "monkey hangers" with the Hartlepool United football team even calling its mascot H'angus the Monkey.
Lol now days it seems like everything offends someone. Just a shame
Hey, ho! Some people! Keep up the good work!
Does the sign explain that it's a statue of a Chimpanzee not a monkey?
Lets Ban the Colour Black shall we !!!
Oh FO
Jesus H, who cares about people who are so easily offended about things that happened so long ago, you can’t change the past!! Only the future.
Ffs
Offend who? Other monkey visitors? 🤷🏽♀️🤦🏾♀️
Jeeez.
Beyond ridiculous
Ffs 🤦♂️
Going too far. Visitors can do their own bloody research. If it offends, tough!
It's a 🐒monkey for fks sake
French spies everywhere are outraged.
What a great way to get Hartlepool some publicity. Very clever
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Duhhhhhh
What is offensive about a monkey?
The absurdity of our enlightenment.
It’s cheap piece of deliberate political nonsense that has been done to try and provoke an issue that (as is stated ) has caused no offence
Think the monkeys must have been offended at the time.
That look like a chimpanzee. It’s an ape, not a monkey.
Oh ffs! We are screwed. The is planet being destroyed by the greedy and life of many of us is being made unbearable by war mongers and now pc freaks who spend their time thinking up what next is on their list. Oh yeh and we all have to learn about all the non gender variants.
This country has gone fucking mad!!!!!!
Better put them up at all the zoo's then. FFS what have we become
So now monkey statues are banned...lol
The bbc offends me
How far can you take it?signs by monkey figures at zoos?ban monkey emoji? Why don’t the left have a big cull on all the monkeys in the world in case they offend people.
Hartlepool Council's leader denies claims from his own authority that monkey statue was to be given a sign explaining its background
Hahahaha fuckin clown world
I don't think anyone will be confused...
The headlines today from some sources are not only unbelievable but show the slippery slope this once great country is sliding down at rapid speed.
You are shitting me...everyone knows the monkey story
A key role of the media is to keep you upset, fearful, outraged, and divided over petty, low-hanging fruit... That way, the powers that be can get away with murder (often literally) whilst you're distracted by petty, inconsequential nonsense. It's extremely effective.
'We have not received any complaints about the statue..” So, to be clear, who do you think it could offend?
The only person who should be offended is anyone who tried to educate you. The “monkey” statue is clearly a chimp which is an ape not a monkey
Was it not mentioned on QI that the term “Monkey” was used for the cannon ball and/or the loaders of these on a ship and it was one of them that washed up?
Fuck sake
Looks like Leslie Jones anyhow. Lenny
The alleged oppressed become the oppressors 🤔 Bring awareness to something and everyone becomes wary Not a good place for the whole of society going forward 🤔.Pause for thought 👍
Poor monkey
How thick does a populous have to hang a monkey, thought not to be an actual monkey but a French 'human' spy? 🙊 Let me check these people's voting record ❎
This is, presumably, something the people say statues should be protected for their educational value will support whole heartedly.
Imagine being one of those people who would be offended by this. What a sad life they must have.
I saw a monkey once. No sign explaining its background so I had to assume it was being racially inflammatory and I battered it
AMC CLOV BNGO
Fake fake fake news BBC. Enemy of we the people of the world. Fake fake fake news BBC
No one asked for this sign btw
Oh FFS is a monkey for gods sake… who gives a shit….
Oh dear another one that needs no explanation it was the silly bits who made s mistake 😃😃
It is a bloody monkey!
About time this was confirmed. Harsh to leave him hanging.
Who actually visits Hartlepool though?
Why would a monkey offend visitors?
Has anyone else spotted the flaw in this article? It Is built on the false premise that Hartlepool has visitors!
Surely it offends monkeys?
Ah yes. I once went to London zoo and there was a statue of a gorilla. How offensive..
The only people it could offend are racists who associate poc with monkeys. This is real lowest common denominator stuff...
Thankyou so many people will feel comfortable by this, they will know the statue here is not to mock them.
Trying to work up the people whose mentality is the same as those who caused the ignorant event in the first place.
Visitors from where, The Planet of the Apes?
No one's discussing the elephant in the room and that is this monkey isn't even a monkey it's a chimpanzee!
So by being racist your trying to stop racism....
I'm offended that people can potentially be offended.
Surely by doing this, you're assuming people think a certain abhorrent way and if they don't, you're making them think a certain abhorrent way? I may well be talking shite
World's going mad
sounds like a good idea to have explanatory signs for most things which are only local or fairly old knowledge
What about the 60s group the Monkees, and their song we are the Monkees, should their songs be banned too, because they could offend certain people
Pathetic, going ott now
I am eating a banana, hope I’m not mistaken for a monkey.
Now who's being racist?
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If people are offended by the statue of a monkey, then they are more dense than the statue.
A la magritte? “This is not a monkey” ? Or “this is not a huperson with a pronounced tan”? Or perhaps: ‘Although we cant even arrange to empty your bins, & couldn’t hold down a job in the private sector where dickheads get sacked-we’re going to have a stab at human psychology”
Anyone confusing a monkey with black people are the real racists.
Who will it upset ?
Bonkers just bonkers, what imbecile though this was a good idea...
Firstly it’s an ape, not a monkey
FFS
Just show how we live in a pathetic blame society of weak minded people
Why would it offend visitors? Please explain.
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