Squirrel!

[awarrenfells.livejournal.com]

Update on an outage I received from the NOC:

Updates: 9:40 PM CST, $Company fiber splice crew has located the fiber cut and working to repair the fiber, fiber cut was caused by squirrels that chewed through the fiber. The crew will need to use a bucket truck/cherry picker to access and repair the fiber, ETR 1 to 1.5 hours.

Stupid squirrels.

Where's Doug when you need him. ^_^

Comments

[alstaria.livejournal.com]

I remember an incident, when I doing support for the evil three-letter ISP, involving a squirrel and a fairly critical transformer that managed to bring down the electricity for half of Columbus (while turning himself into squirrel fricassee).

This isn't some kind of metaphor...

[ljquin.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdkb2kv5ABk&NR=1

[dr-zira.livejournal.com]

That actually happens a lot. I've been told there's something in the cabling that squirrels find very tasty.

In fact, there's a place in Philly called "Squirrel Alley" because of the frequency of outages caused by squirrels gnawing on the cables.

[dysan27.livejournal.com]

Right here ^ _ ^

On another note, I got sent home 3 hours early one day because a squirrel had fried it's self on the transformer into the building and blew the transformer.

Apparently it had happened the year before too.

[torkell]

I believe it was rats that kept on eating the fibre at university, until they eventually gave up and replaced it with armored fibre.

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

I can testify that they really do that...I sat outside the place where I was employed, and watched a squirrel merrily chewing through the phone cables.

Country to what some of my fellow coworkers said, I hadn't trained it to do that when I wanted an afternoon off...I'm guessing from observation, that it was collecting strips of plastic insulation to use as bedding.