This is the classic narrative of curiosity, ignorance, and consequence found in the Monkey and the Wedge story.
Once building a temple in his yard, a businessman engaged several carpenters and builders. They would start working in the morning, pause for lunch, and then resume their daily grind until late in evening.
One day a group of monkeys showed up at the building site and observed the workers heading off for lunch.
One of the carpenters was cutting a sizable chunk of wood. Since it wasn’t quite done yet, he left a gap between them so the log wouldn’t close up. He and the other employees then headed off for lunch.
The monkeys descended from the trees, hopped around the construction site, and began playing with the instruments after everyone gone.
One monkey found the wedge lodged between the logs intriguing. He settled down on the log and positioned himself midway between the two halves. Then he started dragging at the wedge.
The surge struck without warning. That brought the half-split log near to the monkey caught in the log’s gap.
He was gravely injured as was expected of course.
Moral: Do not interfere with things you do not understand.
