Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Monkey from Kenya causes nationwide blackout....no it is not who you think!

Monkey causes nationwide blackout in Kenya By Associated Press June 8, 2016 

NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya’s power generation company says a monkey caused a three-hour nationwide blackout.
The Kenya Electricity Generation Company said in a statement late Tuesday that a monkey climbed onto the roof of the Gitaru Power Station in central Kenya and fell onto a transformer, tripping it.
The company said this caused other machines in the station to trip, resulting in the loss of 180MW from the plant, triggering a national blackout. The statement did not say whether the monkey survived.

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The blackout lasted more than three hours Tuesday before power was restored.
The company said that its facility is secured with an electric fence, and that this was an isolated incident.
(Please insert your own joke here)

5 comments:

Methadras said...

Total cost of damage? $6.

Also when I read Monkey from Kenya, I thought of Urkel and his luddite anti-energy policies.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Like we haven't had enough stories about monkeys?

I'm declaring a monkey moratorium.

Enough of harambe and chubacca mom.

Trooper York said...

Ok Lem I don't want to monkey around with you!

Dad Bones said...

The original monkey wrench.

AllenS said...

They have monkeys, we have squirrels. Both are up to no good.