This is so Canadian.
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From what I read, a single beaver felled a tree that took out some fiber optic lines.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
[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!
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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.
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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.
Software Zen:
delete this;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.
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To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
It could pretty easily happen here in Michigan too, but I think squirrel-based outages are more common.
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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.
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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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Not even with a little bit of Miracle Whip? :laugh:
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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.
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.
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They became squirrel-infused confetti.
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And I think the assumption that it can chew through internet fiber might make it worse! Horrible pictures come to mind... LOL
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To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
