article_snippet: a con artist lists the most hair-raising moments as: being stranded on Kiribati, pick pocketed in Tunis and robbed of much equipment in Algiers and the Khyber Pass, nearly lynched in East Pakistan, almost drowned in Costa Rica, detained by the police in Kinshasa and Hargeisa, jailed in Baghdad, attacked by the flying crabs in Algeria, breaking three ribs and ripping flesh and tearing rotator cuffs in many lands.
article_snippet: Among the more memorable  was an anteater Steve [his companion] and I found recently run over on a road in Panama.
article_snippet: And then there was the pulsating brain of that live monkey in Hong Kong...' '
article_snippet: Temple monkeys in India are often aggressive crooks and will steal anything, Podell says .