Rat Causes Power Outage

[lpstong]

Just saw this on Yahoo Frontpage. Not surprised what rat now a days can do to bring the city lights down.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - The electrocution of a fat rat in an electric station Saturday caused a three-hour power outage in Stockholm's central train station, halting elevators and escalators.

The early morning outage led to some delays in train traffic, said Jesper Ekenlund, a spokesman for power company Fortum. Nearby hotels and shops also were affected, he said.

"The rat had sneaked into a secondary substation and came into contact with some parts that caused it to short circuit," he said.

"It must have been really big because there's a certain distance between the parts it touched."

Ekenlund said Fortum will now have to decontaminate the area where the rat met its fate.

 

[dgridley]

Rats can grow quite large.. but in this day and age, you'd think we wouldn't have to worry about such an occurence.

 

[liquidcherry]

It was a Rat trained by Al Quaida, to perform the next wave of attacks!!!!

Cheers,

Frank

 

[dgridley]

That might not be so far fetched... :p

I believe the Allies used bats during WWII fitted with incendiary devices, hoping they'd roost in military targets. Trouble is, bats don't care where they hang their hat for the night, Allies or not. Didn't quite work as they'd have liked!

It was a Rat trained by Al Quaida, to perform the next wave of attacks!!!!

Cheers,

Frank

 

[liquidcherry]

yeah....heard about that...and it not so uncommon, think about the dophins...or dogs(cry) used to date by the military......

Cheers,

Frank

 

[RageD]

That's actually pretty bizarre lol. But I guess we get those kind of things happening here in the states too occasionally.

-RageD

 

[bizwiz]

I have also encountered an incident where fire ants caused our electricity to shut down.

 

[DnPresident]

I've recently started a blog on wires, It's in my sig 'Huge Rodent Problem' Pretty interesting, I think you might be surprised at why their doing it. If you want to look at it, on the right you can click on the comments and read other people having the same problem.

Really big problem