[Ammi]

..my dad told me that story of the monkey being hanged in Hartlepool...I think it was the Napoleonic Wars though and they thought he was a French spy lol..I guess to them the French were like aliens and they didn't know what they looked like, so they thought he was a French spy who didn't respond to being questioned..I don't know if it actually was a monkey though..it could have been a cabin boy who didn't understand the language...but that wouldn't sound quite as 'gimmicky'....