At 11:29 on Wednesday morning, a very guilty looking monkey dropped on to a transformer on the roof of a Kenyan power station triggering a nationwide blackout which lasted more than four hours.
African utility company KenGen posted a picture of the offending monkey on its Facebook page.
"KenGen power installations are secured by electric fencing which keeps away marauding wild animals," they said. "We regret this isolated incident and the company is looking at ways of further enhancing security at all our power plants."
KenGen says the monkey survived the incident, and is being looked after by the Kenya Wildlife Service.
The Gitaru facility where the incident occurred is the largest hydro-power in East Africa. Local media reports that blackouts are not unusual in the country, where many businesses have installed generators as backup.
The culprit is believed to have been a vervet monkey. According to a 1997 study, vervet monkey's exhibit human-like psychological behaviors, including anxiety and alcohol dependence.
It's not known whether the monkey was drunk at the time, though The Feed suspects the individual may have been hanging around monkey bars.
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