tl;dr, but in essence we cannot completely ignore "misdeeds", because the circumstances are essential in your example, the case not withstanding. That the same circumstances wouldn't be comparable to the monkey's action in the case is either a baseless assumption or showing the hole in your analogy. That is, unless you alleged you were a monkey :P

I mean, you weren't specific so I may assume you stole the camera. And I'm sure monkeys have a concept of stealth, too.