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Squirrel's Nut Hunt Halts TV Broadcast
spiegel.de — A squirrel looking for nuts in a power plant inadvertently caused an 80-minute power outage that shut down Switzerland's main television broadcaster just as the final ceremony of the Beijing Olympics was about to be shown.
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- kmattso, on 08/25/2008, -0/+3Look at the ears on that *****!
- skidme, on 08/25/2008, -0/+2I understand what he was going through. No one stands between me and my nuts.
- AmyVernon, on 08/25/2008, -0/+3Didn't they blame a squirrel for the huge Northeast blackout a few years back??
- Crackerpat, on 08/26/2008, -0/+42 of my friends died from squirrels chewing on their nuts!
- skidme, on 08/26/2008, -0/+1Officially the worst way to die, ever.
- granolajoe, on 08/26/2008, -0/+1It wasn't an accident. It was a kamikaze mission, and a sign of more to come. It's the squirrels' way of telling us that officially...IT'S ON!
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