This is so Canadian.

OriginalGriff

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honey the codewitch

NO EAT CAPYBARAS! BAD GRIFF

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Greg Utas

Did a beaver chew through a cable? Fell a tree that took out infrastructure? Have a burst dam take out infrastructure? I recall reading that much of North America's topography was shaped by beavers, whose dams backfilled low-lying areas and made them more fertile.

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honey the codewitch

From what I read, a single beaver felled a tree that took out some fiber optic lines.

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Roland M Smith

I used to work for a power company in Vermont. My boss heard a loud bang at his house and the power goes out. He goes out into his yard and finds a smoking fried squirrel on the ground and the fuse on his utility pole was blown.

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Gary R Wheeler

My uncle had the same thing, except it was a squirrel nest on top of a transformer. The casing rusted through and one night during a storm, the transformer exploded.

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dandy72

Beavers are no laughing matter. They'll build dams wherever they damned well please, causing water streams to get rerouted and causing floods. Destroy a dam and they'll be back at it the next day. And since it's illegal to kill them in Canada, you have to get so-called experts involved. I witnessed that firsthand 2+ decades ago. I can just imagine the stupid paperwork nowadays.

OriginalGriff

They are eaten all over South America - except Chile apparently, but especially in Venezuela - and are apparently really tasty!

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honey the codewitch

I know this evil of which you speak, and it breaks my heart. Those critters are way to clever to be eaten. =(

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den2k88

Ah man, this is such a rooster-up!

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Lost User

It's just the one species that is a naughty word. :laugh:

Craig Robbins

Not even with a little bit of Miracle Whip? :laugh:

honey the codewitch

I didn't think it could be made worse. You made it worse.

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Craig Robbins

And I'm sure you know the only reason I posted that was to bug you a tiny bit ;P Best wishes HTC from Rainy Rochester MN!

Lost User

nonsense , fake news ... beaver would "felled " the pole

Vivi Chellappa

[Teeth marks yield clue to widespread internet outage in Canada • The Register Forums](https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2022/06/15/beaver\_internet\_outage\_canada/) The last few comments full of double entendres are so funny!

englebart

Some idiots in my area had them as pets with a breeding pair. Of course, they escaped and I am sure we will be overrun in a few decades. Team Coyote, do your thing!

CodeZombie62

We lived on Guam in the mid-70’s and occasionally had island wide power outages that were supposedly caused by suicidal snakes crawling into some power stations or whatever.

Geoff Gariepy

It could pretty easily happen here in Michigan too, but I think squirrel-based outages are more common.