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  Via Newspapers.com 🙈 🙈 🙈 🙈 🙈 🙈 🙈 Sometimes, it's just one of those days.  The "Miami News," December 5, 1951: As the wife of Ben Grenald told him on the telephone, it was a riot. There was a monkey in a tree. Grenald was at the Moderne pharmacy at 555 41st St., Miami Beach.  He owns it. The wife, Selma, telephoned from her home at 5130 Alton Rd. "Come on home, Ben," she said.  "This is a real riot.  You'll die." Patrolman John Ward was called by Mrs. Grenald, too. banana nose in movie 🍌 He was dancing around under the tree with a bunch of bananas trying to get the monkey down.  The monkey was swinging around like Tarzan. All the kids in the neighborhood were around whooping and laughing. That was when the Grenalds' boy, Douglas, got into the red ants.  Two-year-old Douglas screamed. So did his sister and his little cousins and the kids from the neighborhood. Grenald dunked him in the tub.  Then he and Mrs. Grenald and Douglas went ...