By the end of the work week, we’re ready for an escape and maybe to go out in a nice dress. A recent incident in Missouri featured just that sentiment, only it was a monkey doing the escaping, in a stylish outfit.

The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office in Missouri shared an update just after the New Year saying they’d received “reports of a subject monkeying around” on the afternoon of Friday, January 3. The subject soon had a law enforcement tail, which found the animal around Highways 21 and M. The tutu the spider monkey was wearing made it especially easy to find.

In a social media post, the sheriff’s office shared two pictures of the incident, one in which the monkey’s mouth is agape, as if it couldn’t believe its escape hadn’t worked. Another showed it sitting calmly in the grass.

According to the sheriff’s office, they coaxed the animal in order to get closer and closer, until they were able to contain it – without incident - and get a handle on the “bananas situation.”

Deputies learned that the monkey had been staying at a home nearby when it opened a door and escaped. It was returned to its caretaker.

The sheriff’s office says locating primate suspects is sometimes all in a day’s work.

They write, “In all seriousness, this is a great example of law enforcement officers never knowing what they’ll face on any given call, and having to be prepared to handle whatever the job throws at them.”