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[El Presidente]

Simian saboteur  

This guy will be fast tracked to The Sun Newspaper

"With the island's endemic toque macaque population estimated between 2 and 3 million, it appears this was just one drop in a banana bunch of potential grid-wreckers". 

Sri Lanka goes bananas after monkey unplugs nation

 

Simian saboteur or a grid screaming for modernization?

 

Mon 10 Feb 2025 // 13:51 UTC

 

 

Sri Lanka's electricity grid was brought down nationwide on Sunday after monkey business struck a power station south of the capital of Colombo.

"A monkey came into contact with our grid transformer, causing an imbalance in the power system," energy minister Kumara Jayakody told media.

The simian saboteur left the population of 22,000,000 sweltering in temperatures above 30°C (86°F) while engineers attempted to restore power to critical facilities like hospitals and water purification plants.

Social media users were swift to poke fun at the South Asian island nation's fragile grid. "One monkey = total chaos. Time to rethink infrastructure?" one said, while Jamila Husain, editor-in-chief of local newspaper the Daily Mirror, wrote: "Sri Lanka's national grid is so outdated that even a monkey can cause an island-wide blackout."

[ha_banos]

Heh. Ironically those in IT might be familiar with the concept of the Netflix chaos monkey used to test resilience of IT systems https://github.com/netflix/chaosmonkey

 

[Drguano]

[Ken Gargett]

we have had possums and pythons shut down power at times. a monkey would seem very likely. 

[JohnS]

So we're supposed to believe that monkeys brought down the electricity grid of a whole nation? I suppose a 'Planet of the Apes' scenario is not too far away?

[Puros Y Vino]

In the past two weeks squirrels have cause two power outages in different parts of Toronto. I think the residual heat on the wires attracts them...then. ZAP!!! 

[Chibearsv]

22 Million people disrupted by one animal incident is insane. Is the whole country like cheap strings of Christmas lights plugged end to end, one bulb goes out and the whole string goes dead?  I wouldn't call that a "grid".  We get squirrels disrupting power in our area too. Lights go out and then you hear POP! and you know another squirrel has sacrificed himself to kill a transformer. Probably doesn't affect more than a few hundred people though.