Look, I understand the need to disguise your identity while committing a crime, but there’s no need to go full Halloween about it, weeks before the actual holiday.

A Long Island, N.Y., teenager’s bike was stolen by two gorillas and a chicken.

The Associated Press reports that the young man was riding along Route 25A early Monday afternoon when three people dressed in animal costumes approached him.

These weren’t folks out for an early trick-or-treat. Suffolk County police confirm that one of the ape-suited crooks slugged the kid in the head, knocking him off the bike. The chicken bandit then rode off on the bike while the two apes ran away.

I hope that afterward the victim yelled “YOU DAMN DIRTY APES!”