This is the hilarious moment a hungry monkey leaps onto a motorcycle to steal a passenger's food while they wait at a level crossing.<br /><br />The rider had his wife on the back when they pulled up to the train tracks were cars were waiting in Lopburi, central Thailand, on May 29.<br /><br />However, a cheeky wild monkey - suffering from a lack of tourists normally feeding them - saw an opportunity for a free meal.<br /><br />Footage from another road user shows the primate scamper along the ground before jumping into the woman's lap.<br /><br />As her partner tries to ride away, the monkey mugger grabs her bag of food, rummages through it, then laps up the juice and pieces of fruit in the bag.<br /><br />The daylight robbery emerged in the same town where hundreds of monkeys that were starving because of the coronavirus had a huge fight in the street over a piece of food.<br /><br />Onlooker, Suwa, said: ''The monkeys in my town have always been aggressive but recently they have become even more wild.<br /><br />''They don't have as much food as before, when tourists would feed them every day and make them fat. Now they are desperate for anything to eat.''<br /><br />Lopburi, around 85 miles north of Bangkok, is known for its large population of wild monkeys that roam the streets.
