The Monster From Inner Space

Riddle: Trapped inside a box-like prison cell, Bonnie and Claude had been placed under lock and key. They had both been there for three weeks. Claude was standing on his head, while Bonnie was lying on her back. Both of them, along with their co-prisoners, were all being observed by numerous passersby who watched them, just as they would animals in a zoo. A man, wearing work gloves and sporting a grizzled mustache, would routinely stop by and forcefully usher new prisoners into the boxy cell. At one point, a short female approached the jail-box and slipped a dollar bill into Bonnie and Claude’s prison. A sudden look of extreme determination crept over the girl’s face as she quickly grabbed a metal object with her bare hand, releasing a monstrous-looking creature which slowly descended from the top of the cell, and began slowly moving toward Claude, who was still standing on his head. Bonnie was not able to scream or alert Claude as to the monster’s approach, and its appendages opened wider and wider, while its claws began to dig into his backside. The girl gasped at the sight, but within twenty seconds she had somehow rescued Claude from the clutches of the monster, and freed him from his prison. Unfortunately, Bonnie was not so lucky. Can you explain these events?