A local town council is western Japan has voted to give compensation to more than a dozen people who were attacked by a vicious male macaque during a rampage last month.

The same malicious monkey attacked at least 18 people in the city of Hyuga in Miyazaki prefecture.  It jumped one guy on a bicycle from behind, and he wound up needing 20 stitches on his arms and legs.

After a week and a half of reported attacks, about 2,500 police, firefighters, and locals formed a posse and searched the entire area, until they cornered him in an abandoned house.  After that, no more monkey attacks, so they know it was just one creature on a rampage.

Each resident attacked by the monkey will get more than A$200 compensation. 

The story doesn’t end well for the monkey.  Unable to comprehend the damage he was doing and the enemies he made, authorities put him down. 

Macaques are common throughout rural Japan and usually live in the hills and mountains without too much contact with humans.