That Damn Dirty Rat

So turns out the cable (and since I get high speed through cable, also internet connectivity) outage yesterday was caused by a damn dirty rat.

In a suspected act of rodent terrorism, a single rat made a solo attack on a key bit of infrastructure and took out power on the block that houses our local cable provider.

Coincidence, or planned terror?

Call me speciesest, but I don't trust those damn dirty rats.

I wouldn't be surprised if a martyrdom video turns up on the internet any day now.

It's possible that mice were responsible, and not rats, but either way, rodent kind is at war with us, whether we'd like to admit it or not.

(it was reported in the local paper on page 3, PDF of the whole paper can be found here)