Two macaques pulled a part off a Singapore streetlight. The transport agency called them its "unexpected maintenance crew."

Folks, somewhere in Singapore there's a streetlight with a grievance. Two long-tailed macaques were caught on video removing a control node from the top of a street lamp along Old Upper Thomson Road, AsiaOne reports. Chinese daily Lianhe Zaobao reported that its reporter witnessed the incident on Sept. 21. The Land Transport Authority shared the video, which it received from a member of the public, and dubbed the "cheeky" monkeys its "unexpected maintenance crew." That node is part of the system that lets the agency automatically detect faults and control its streetlights, so the system noticed. "So while our furry friends thought they were being sneaky, our system knew something was up," the LTA said. And this pair wasn't the first. "This isn't the first time curious wildlife has taken an interest in our streetlight equipment, especially near forests and nature reserves," the agency said. It is already working with its maintenance contractors on tamper-resistant measures and exploring designs that put the control nodes inside the lamppost itself. "Macaques are naturally curious and may explore unfamiliar objects in their environment," said How Choon Beng, the National Parks Board's group director of wildlife management. NParks called it isolated and said it would keep monitoring. Here's the landing. The LTA ended its post by handing out a pink slip: "Looks like our furry maintenance crew may soon have to find another job." Give a government agency credit when it earns it. It caught the problem, told the public, laughed at itself and announced a fix, all in one post. Not a bad template for any agency. Moral of the story, folks: never do unlicensed electrical work on a lamp that reports back to headquarters.