A weasel can shut you down! 
Large Hadron Collider: Weasel causes shutdown - BBC News
Large Hadron Collider !
Large Hadron Collider: Weasel causes shutdown - BBC News
Large Hadron Collider !
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Arik
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It's those little Gremlins
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Couldn't figure out why my Christmas lights weren't working until I found a chewed extension cord with a fried mole next to it.
bigwheelzip
Absent Comrade
Many Swiss know the wrath of the "Marder", otherwise known as the European Pine Marten. They lay waste to car wiring (Marderschaden) and have created a cottage industry of home remedy's to repel them.
When there is Marder activity in a village, it strikes fear in the hearts of auto owners, and word spreads like wildfire.
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BigBill
Absent Comrade
One of my full grown cats chewed lamp wires. Until she connected one day. I didn't know it until I found the wire. Let's say she lived but not to chew wires anymore.
GB
Member
The largest population of weasels in North America are in Washington DC. And they chew up a lot more than wiring! (Hope this one makes it past the reviewers, I just got off the naughty list)
The wonder of nature... will technology survive?
Has anyone NOT experienced ants in a junction box?
Has anyone NOT experienced ants in a junction box?
Never had ants in the J box, but in my parents' house we once found a mouse in there. He was mummified by the time we found him.
Frank46
US Veteran
Gas turbine site where I worked had to replace a huge transformer. Seems a squirrel had short it out. Our house lost power and we have a pole mounted transformer just outside the car port. When the power company guy showed up seems the link had been shorted out. After replacing the link and power restored he found a dead squirrel nearby the pole. Frank
Many Swiss know the wrath of the "Marder", otherwise known as the European Pine Marten. They lay waste to car wiring (Marderschaden) and have created a cottage industry of home remedy's to repel them.
When there is Marder activity in a village, it strikes fear in the hearts of auto owners, and word spreads like wildfire.
A buddy of mine in Germany had a weasel (or a marder, whatever) get in his car and screw stuff up.
bigwheelzip
Absent Comrade
Some of the insurance companies require a separate coverage for the little beasts, that cause about a hundred million dollars in auto damage annually in Germany. When they get into a home, the damage they do is astounding.
I'm not a hunter, but if I still lived in Switzerland, I'd make an exception for these devils.
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A weasel can shut you down!
Large Hadron Collider: Weasel causes shutdown - BBC News
Large Hadron Collider !
That was a very expensive meal!
Quite possibly the most expensive meal ever eaten.Gives renewed meaning to "POP GOES THE WEASEL"
Could not help myself
Could not help myself
We, too, had a squirrel short out our transformer. As we all gathered in the cul-de-sac, one of the neighbor's Schnauzer came out from under the power pole and took off running down the street with a smoking squirrel in her mouth! It's not every day a dog gets a fresh cooked squirrel!
finesse_r
Member
Certainly an unattractive little bugger. Wonder how they can stand to be close enough to another one to ever mate?
Friend of mine is, as the song goes, a lineman for the county. He tells me about 1/2 of his calls can be attributed to squirrels. And, unlike Big Bill's cat, they don't survive.
