Electric customers in Kokomo, Indiana got an unpleasant surprise when a suicide squirrel made his way into an electric substation. The resultant fireball knocked out power to about 5,000 customers. The animal uprising is getting ugly. First it was kamikaze pigeons in Europe, now this.
Duke Energy restored the service from the South Main Street substation near Wildcat Creek after about an hour Sunday night.
"We lost the squirrel and 5,039 customers for the space of an hour," Duke spokesman Rob Norris said.
Actually, they didn't so much as lose the squirrel as vaporize him, but that's a matter of semantics. The addition of flammable bushy-tailed rats to the animal's arsenal is a bad development.
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