--- title: Florida Resident Calls 911 After Monkey Eats Her Mail description: His name is Zeek canonical: https://time.com/4052557/monkey-911-florida-mail/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-28T18:21:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:46:57.386Z og:title: Florida Resident Calls 911 Because Monkey Was Sitting on a Mailbox Eating Mail og:description: Just some monkeying around og:url: https://time.com/4052557/monkey-911-florida-mail/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2d4e97f4efdc4cb2/698865d4cf40a805aac3ff25/monkey-mailbox-sanford-police.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: monkey-mailbox-sanford-police og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Florida Resident Calls 911 Because Monkey Was Sitting on a Mailbox Eating Mail twitter:description: Just some monkeying around twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2d4e97f4efdc4cb2/698865d4cf40a805aac3ff25/monkey-mailbox-sanford-police.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Florida Resident Calls 911 Because Monkey Was Sitting on a Mailbox Eating Mail  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Sep 28, 2015 6:21 PM UTC  Sanford Police Department  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Sep 28, 2015 6:21 PM UTC Every day, police have to put a stop to some type of monkey business. But on Monday morning, Florida cops got a call about an actual monkey at the center of some monkey business. Shortly after 8:00 a.m., someone called 911 to report a monkey sitting on top of a mailbox, eating mail, in the Hidden Lakes subdivision of Sanford. When officers from the Sanford Police Department showed up, the monkey was found climbing a street sign. They used a water bottle to “lure” the animal towards their patrol car, [the public information officer said,](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/911-caller-monkeys-eating-mail-out-of-mailbox/) which distracted the animal for a bit. But then it leapt to the top of the vehicle and started to pull off the molding before its owner, a Sanford resident, came and identified him as “Zeek.” Sanford Police Department posted the following photos and videos of the incident on Facebook:  Sanford Police Department  Sanford Police Department ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4052557/monkey-911-florida-mail/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4052557/monkey-911-florida-mail/"},"headline":"Florida Resident Calls 911 Because Monkey Was Sitting on a Mailbox Eating Mail","datePublished":"2015-09-28T18:21:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:46:57.386Z","description":"Just some monkeying around","url":"https://time.com/4052557/monkey-911-florida-mail/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2d4e97f4efdc4cb2/698865d4cf40a805aac3ff25/monkey-mailbox-sanford-police.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2d4e97f4efdc4cb2/698865d4cf40a805aac3ff25/monkey-mailbox-sanford-police.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"monkey-mailbox-sanford-police","caption":"","creditText":"Sanford Police Department","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4052557/monkey-911-florida-mail/","name":"Florida Resident Calls 911 Because Monkey Was Sitting on a Mailbox Eating Mail"}}]}] ```