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‘Total chaos’: Monkey blamed for nationwide power cut in Sri Lanka

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‘Total chaos’: Monkey blamed for nationwide power cut in Sri Lanka

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Energy minister says monkey ‘came into contact with grid transformer’, causing hours-long outage in sweltering heat

Energy minister says monkey ‘came into contact with grid transformer’, causing hours-long outage in sweltering heat

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Squirrels in North America and parts of Europe are the chaos gremlins, but the result is the same.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_disruptions_caused_by_squirrels

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