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Zapped Rat Causes Stockholm Power Outage
Saturday, April 05, 2008
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - The electrocution of a fat rat in an electric station
Saturday caused a three-hour power outage in Stockholm's central train
station, halting elevators and escalators.
The early morning outage led to some delays in train traffic, said Jesper
Ekenlund, a spokesman for power company Fortum. Nearby hotels and shops
also
were affected, he said.
"The rat had sneaked into a secondary substation and came into contact
with
some parts that caused it to short circuit," he said.
"It must have been really big because there's a certain distance between
the
parts it touched."
Ekenlund said Fortum will now have to decontaminate the area where the rat
met its fate.
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