NEWS - NYC COUPLE RECEIVES RANSOM DEMANDS FOR STUFFED TOY MONKEY BONGO

2 words- even wierder..lol

MICHELLE
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NYC couple receives ransom demands for stuffed toy monkey Bongo

• From: NewsCore
• August 05, 2011 10:30PM

THE Manhattan couple separated from the stuffed toy monkey they raised as a son said that they were inundated with ransom demands after offering a reward for the Beanie Baby's safe return, the New York Post reported today.

"If you ever want to see Bongo alive again, leave $1 million under the Brooklyn Bridge," one caller threatened on Bonni Marcus' voicemail.
Others veered from menacing to vulgar, leaving such messages as "I have your monkey, and I cut it up and took out his stuffing" and "I have your monkey - it's in my pants."
But Marcus and her boyfriend, Jack Zinzi, who for the last decade kept their beloved Bongo at their side, were not laughing. Instead, they said they were still praying that someone would heed the cries of the "parents" of the ape.
Marcus, 47, who teaches English as a second language at a private school, and Zinzi, 58, a building manager, never tried to have children, they said. Instead, they showered unconditional love on the $5 doll and his identical brothers - Do, Ray and Me.

"It's like losing a child," Zinzi said.
Marcus already received more than 100 phone calls and text messages on her cell phone, and most of them were "sympathetic, offering condolences or offering new dolls," she said.
But she has faith that there will be more bedtimes for Bongo. "I'm totally confident we will find him," she added.