While the city has its perks, Toronto can also be defined as weird — a place where a dapper monkey roams Ikea and escaped capybaras are on the lam for weeks. Here are some of the weirdest moments to remember as Toronto marks its 189th birthday.
Toronto can be defined as a multicultural hub, a city with a vibrant food scene and a pit of perennial disappointment for fans of a certain hockey team.— a place where a dapper monkey roams Ikea, escaped capybaras are on the lam for weeks, and clowns riot.Darwin, the ‘Ikea Monkey,’ shocks shoppers in north Torontoin north Toronto, walking around the parking garage in a tiny shearling coat and diaper.
His owner, a Toronto real-estate lawyer named Yasmin Nakhuda, was fined $240 under the Toronto Municipal Code for keeping a prohibited animal and was asked to surrender the monkey. For the next 15 months,Radio station “Rickrolls” Torontonians to test its signal, it decided to do so by playing the same song over and over: Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up.”
A group of American clowns from a travelling circus found themselves in a brothel that a volunteer firefighting group in the city often visited. The two groups got into a melee, with the clowns claiming victory. , who caused a frenzy himself when he was spotted in Yorkdale looking for “Fashion Santa.” Bieber ended up snapping a selfie with Mason in what looks to be the back hallways, bringing more fame to the trendy Saint Nick.The “Great Stork Derby” of 1926 to 1936 is one of the strangest competitions in the city’s history. Women competed to have the most babies in order to inherit significant fortunes from Charles Vance Miller, a wealthy lawyer and financier who loved a good joke.
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