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Suicide squirrel knocks out Swiss TV
And the radio, and some trams
By Drew Cullen → More by this author
TV and radio were knocked out for a couple of hours in Switzerland on Sunday - after a squirrel got itself electrocuted. The trams stopped running too for a short time in Zurich, the venue for the squirrel-short circuit action.
Swiss TV's emergency power back-up was too puny too cope with demand - and many Swiss sports fans were left very frustrated. The outage at Switzerland's national broadcaster coincided with the closing ceremony of the Olympics and also the Formula 1 race in Valencia.
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The German language site Baz.Online has a pic of the dead squirrel - and the sub-station that triggered the power cut. How can you resist?. ®
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Our thanks for the tip to Christoph Schneeberger, who writes: "People are quite upset since those channels are paid by a lot of tax francs to inform us citizens in case of catastrophic events." So how many squirrels would it need to take out Switzerland
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And the radio, and some trams
By Drew Cullen → More by this author
TV and radio were knocked out for a couple of hours in Switzerland on Sunday - after a squirrel got itself electrocuted. The trams stopped running too for a short time in Zurich, the venue for the squirrel-short circuit action.
Swiss TV's emergency power back-up was too puny too cope with demand - and many Swiss sports fans were left very frustrated. The outage at Switzerland's national broadcaster coincided with the closing ceremony of the Olympics and also the Formula 1 race in Valencia.
Click here to find out more!
The German language site Baz.Online has a pic of the dead squirrel - and the sub-station that triggered the power cut. How can you resist?. ®
Bootnote
Our thanks for the tip to Christoph Schneeberger, who writes: "People are quite upset since those channels are paid by a lot of tax francs to inform us citizens in case of catastrophic events." So how many squirrels would it need to take out Switzerland
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