The newsworthy parts of this:
- It was a monkey and not a squirrel.
- It took down the entire grid and not just a section of it, because poorly-designed and -maintained grid.
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2025
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The monkey was clearly a highly trained intelligence operative
"unplugged nation" is certainly one way to describe what happened. The monkey very briefly became part of the electricity grid, is another.
I know it’s America-centric of me but “monkey fucks up entire country” hits different over here
That's an orangutan, you can tell by the color.
This has to be the cheekiest headline I’ve seen in the last 7 minutes
Right turn Clyde.