Squirrel Causes Major Power Outage

When I was little I would watch squirrels on power lines and wonder how they didn't shock themselves. Later I learned that the insulation would protect them... most of the time. This little squirrel wasn't so lucky.

This little Florida squirrel was just doing his squirrel thing when he met his unfortunate fate by getting mixed up in a power transformer. Needless to say he got zapped pretty good and caused a power outage that made three schools and 700 people lose power.

The schools were in the middle of the state standardized tests so I can only assume that the kids were grateful for that squirrel.