Who's pulling the wires?

(From The Times of India)

This case couldn't have invited a simian smirk, whatsoever. Recently, a member of the community suffered a gruesome death when, it fell on the transformer near Sterling Apartments on University Road. Although people in the locality weren't so much troubled by the poor monkey's electrocution as they were by the prolonged power cut that followed.

Though most transformers in the city are installed on plinths and are kept out of reach of stray animals by fencing, they are not guarded against arboreal animals on momentary aerial trips. Of course LESA washes its hands off the issue. Says Executive Engineer Narain Das of the LESA distribution division II, "There's no remedy to this kind of a problem. Just like one can't prevent a natural calamity from occurring, one can't prevent monkeys from going about their activities. It's all right if they limit their escapades to trees, terraces and rooftops. But if they choose to caper near electric installations, they do it at their own peril!"

Had this monkey business been limited to those with the Rhesus factor, the state of all things connected with transformers and electric poles would have been better. But fact of the matter is that in the same week, while a buffalo got electrocuted ...