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Energy minister says monkey ‘came into contact with grid transformer’, causing hours-long outage in sweltering heat
Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/10/total-chaos-monkey-blamed-for-nationwide-power-cut-in-sri-lanka
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I’m sad to say that ‘coming into contact’ with a grid transformer (enough to knock the whole system out) is usually not an activity that leaves much room for future health concerns for that monkey.