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The electrocution of a fat rat in an electric station Saturday caused a three-hour power outage in Stockholm’s central train station.
The early morning outage led to some delays in train traffic, since the rat’s 11,000 voltage blowout led to a blackout in the station and halted elevators and escalators, Jesper Ekenlund, a spokesman for power company Fortum said…
“The rat had sneaked into a secondary substation and came into contact with some parts that caused it to short circuit,” he said.
Ekenlund said Fortum will now have to decontaminate the area where the rat met its fate.
“The blow was so forceful that it (the rat) actually burst,” he said.
Good thing the rat’s family can’t sue.
Maybe it was a Pikachu.
My father in law was a lineman until he retired in the 1980s. Many power failures in his work area were caused by fricasseed birds, squirrels, and other creatures that shorted electrical equipment. Rats and mice often chewed on electrical wires, doing themselves in. And then there are auto wrecks into power poles…
“Good thing the rat’s family can’t sue.”–HAR!!!
But don’t give Peta any new ideas. I bet if rats were on anyone’s endangered species list, a suit would lie?
Living in Bangkok we often had city wide power outages caused by rats, I remember one that lasted a few days and had a lot of businesses shuting down due to the heat without A/C.
“You dirty Rat!!!” – bows to James Cagney !!!