by Ruth S. Baker

‘Total chaos’: Monkey blamed for nationwide power cut in Sri Lanka
Energy minister says monkey ‘came into contact with grid transformer’,
causing hours-long outage in sweltering heat”
—The Guardian

This outage is an outrage! And Sri Lanka needs to know:
How could one creature’s antics cause a nation’s grid to blow?
Attempts at explanation have so far been very thin.
What kind of system lets an unelected monkey in?