This is so Canadian.

[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.

[Ravi Bhavnani]

:love: /ravi

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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. =(

To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.

[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.

To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.

[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.

[inch]

And we're just trying to re-introduce them here in the UK...

[Shmoken99]

But what about the squirrels?!?

[Shmoken99]

Mayonnaise doesn't go bad. It turns into Miracle Whip.

[Kent K]

Exact same thing has happened to me. Except the power pole was across the county road from my house. Called the utility company and they came out and put a new fuse up on the transformer that fed my house.. . . .and a prickly thing over the terminal where the line attaches to it to attempt to keep the critters from being a conduit for the electricity there.