Watch hilarious moment monkey steals Shropshire man's phone and takes selfies on it
Oliver Lloyd from Telford was taking photos of the monkeys when one saw the opportunity to run off with the device.
A monkey stole a Shropshire man's phone and took selfies on it for over an hour before it was retrieved.
Oliver Lloyd, 19, was visiting the Uluwatu Temple in Bali, Indonesia, on 15 June when his phone was snatched by an unlikely thief. Initially just metres away, the macaque monkey then darted into the forest clutching Oliver's phone - hidden amongst thousands of macaques.
He and his girlfriend - with the help of temple guards - spent over an hour searching for the monkey. Eventually, with the help of the Life360 tracking app on his girlfriend's phone, Oliver was able to track its exact location, and the exact monkey, and a guard was able to retrieve it.
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But to his amusement, Oliver was left with a parting gift from the monkey who had taken a number of selfies and a video on his phone.
Oliver, a finance apprentice from Telford, Shropshire, said: "We run out of the forest, and my girlfriend says 'imagine if the monkeys have taken selfies on your phone'. I looked on the camera, and it had recorded a whole video and taken selfies! It was amazing. What the selfies are of - he's got his nipples in as well."
Oliver had been taking photos of the monkeys before one saw an opportunity to grab his phone.
He told Sell Us Your Story: "I was taking some photos of these monkeys to send to my mates. I put my phone down towards my pocket for a second and I heard my girlfriend shouting my name and they snatched my phone out of my hand straight away. The monkey then runs straight into the forest out of our eyesight.
"I was thinking about my money, travel insurance etc! We searched for about 40 minutes. The guard asked if we'd tried a tracker. So, I checked Life360 on my girlfriend's phone and we see it's only a few metres away. So, we both go into the forest and there are monkeys everywhere.
“At points they thought they'd found it but then the monkey ran off again. We're on the spot where it is and eventually, we hear a scream and one of the guards says he has it."