Two monkey waiters in Japan, Yat-chan and Fuku-chan, are serving customers at Kayabukiya, a local hangout just north of Tokyo. Tourists, from around the globe, are flocking to see them. Leave the bananas at home. These simian staffers prefer to be tipped with boiled soy-beans. Yum!

Gangs of Somali pirates armed with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades have been hijacking ships and holding crews for ransom… Even a super-tanker! The UN chief says pirates are estimated to have been paid between $25/ 30 million in ransom. The brazen bandits are building sprawling stone houses, cruising in luxury cars — even hiring caterers to prepare Western-style food for their hostages, transforming their poor villages into boomtowns.

Mickey Cohen would be proud of these marauders; terrorizing the high seas and raking in the ca$h.