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totallyclips t1_j0skas6 wrote

That's a very fragile system if an ex pet can take out the power supply

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christhomasburns t1_j0sxmc3 wrote

Squirrels cause outages all the time by chewing through wires.

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like_a_wet_dog t1_j0t1usg wrote

As a cable-guy, we had a "rodent damage" service code to bill the main company. Sometimes they pick a spot they hate and kill it with their teeth, no one knows why lol.

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Captain_Quark t1_j0t2xy4 wrote

I remember seeing the guy from the electric company bring a fried squirrel back to his truck after fixing a power outage. Pretty wild.

And iguanas are basically the squirrels of the tropics, so this story makes sense.

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Dt2_0 t1_j0v7f05 wrote

Except Iguanas are way larger and quite a bit meaner!

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WaterHaven t1_j0ve0rl wrote

Two power outages this year because of that for me. My wife thought a bomb went off for a second, because she just saw a flash and heard a big book right outside our living room lol.

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DKLancer t1_j0szcxh wrote

I worked at a retail store once that had regular brown and black outs entirely due to squirrels chewing wires in the circuit box.

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tikael t1_j0timbw wrote

Small animals can get into really small openings and wreck things. A weasel even took down the Large Hadron Collider.

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Ed_Durr t1_j0u747t wrote

A weasel disrupted the Large Hadron Colluder on April 29, 2016. Within a week, Donald Trump became the republican nominee for president.

Coincidence? I think not!

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