This week in Joe Biden news, the veep is spending four days in India. The Wall Street Journal produced a story Tuesday morning about what has been, thus far, the vice president’s biggest security threat–monkeys.
Yes, a group of adult and baby monkeys had smelled some fresh mangoes and clustered in a tree above a statue of Gandhi. Biden was to visit the site, where the leader of India’s freedom movement had been assassinated, later in the day. “What I don’t want is a mango to drop on the vice president when he comes here,” an Indian security official told WSJ.
Luckily, when the veep arrived, no monkeys nor mangoes interfered with Monday’s photo-op. That means that Biden’s 2011 trip to Mongolia still reigns supreme in terms of travel photographs. On that jaunt, Biden took in some Mongolian wrestling, shot a bow and arrow and was presented with a Mongolian horse, which he named “Celtic.”
