Before COVID-19 shut Lopburi, some of its 58,000 residents casually fed the 3,000 long-tailed macaques that lived alongside and even threw an annual fruit banquet for them, drawing tourists to "Monkey City", a three-hour drive north of Bangkok.

Monkeys have long been a part of the history of the Thai city of Lopburi. However, during the COVID-19 lockdown in 2022, residents stopped feeding them and they became unruly, spreading havoc all over the city. But these monkeys aren’t the only animals to run afoul of the law. In 2019, a rooster was put on trial in France, and a parrot was once arrested in India! And there's more! Click through to discover these and other bizarre cases of animal arrests worldwide.