Squirrel Causes Blackout

Lafayette, Colorado; June 12, 2008

Squirrel breaks into a fuse box, knocking out power to sixty homes and shutting off the traffic lights at Arapahoe and US 287. Not sure, but I'm assuming the intent was to cause an accident. Or maybe that was a diversion while other squirrels raised some mayhem in one of those sixty homes.

Curious wording in the article:

"The outage was caused by a squirrel that got into a fuse box, and lasted from 6:48 a.m. until 8:24 a.m."

The squirrel lasted from 6:48 until 8:24? I took that to mean that the squirrel got fried at 8:24, but Brodi envisioned a police standoff with the squirrel holding out until then, dodging bullets and yelling at the coppers to come and get him. We need clarification.