Telepot not playing nice with multiprocessing

telepot_error.py

import multiprocessing
import random
import time

import telepot
from telepot.loop import MessageLoop

import config

bot = telepot.Bot(config.token)


def long_process(u_id, msg):
    """A process that takes between 3 and 10 seconds."""
    slptime = random.randrange(3, 10)
    print('long_process({}, {}) sleeping for {} at {}'.format(u_id, msg, slptime, int(time.time() % 1000)))
    time.sleep(slptime)
    print('long_process({}, {}) sending message at {}'.format(u_id, msg, int(time.time() % 1000)))
    bot.sendMessage(u_id, 'This is a response to {}.'.format(msg))
    print('long_process({}, {}) sent message at {}'.format(u_id, msg, int(time.time() % 1000)))


def handle(msg):
    user_id = msg['chat']['id']
    command = msg['text']

    multiprocessing.Process(target=long_process, args=[user_id, command]).start()


MessageLoop(bot, handle).run_forever()