B-List

1. "Curiosity killed the power: Cat in substation blamed for city outage"
   <http://www.h-ponline.com/articles/2004/10/25/news/01outage.txt>
"The feline, of the dark tiger variety, wandered into the Cinergy substation
 north of town, darkening many city homes and most city TV sets. And then --
 after an unhealthy jolt of electricity had coursed through its body -- the
 cat wandered away"

2. "Rat killed power supply"
   <http://pub.tv2.no/nettavisen/english/article189127.ece>
"A rat the size of a small cat cut the power for 15,000 consumers in downtown
 Bodø [Norway] Thursday evening"

3. "Rat plunges World Cup game into darkness"
   <http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1098252.html>
"A rat has been blamed for plunging a football stadium into darkness during a
 World Cup qualifier match [in Calcutta, India]"

4. "Bunny blamed for Bluffs blackout"  [expired link]
   <http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_np=0&u_pg=1636&u_sid=992260>

5. "Squirrel knocks out power to 13,000"
   <http://www.brainerddispatch.com/stories/031004/new_0310040071.shtml>
"A single squirrel knocked out electricity to a large portion of northern
 Crow Wing County Wednesday morning"

6. "Boa triggers blackout"
   <http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2004/05/20/466765-ap.html>
"A snake triggered a 15 minute countrywide power outage when it slithered
 into the intake tunnel of a major hydroelectric plan"

7. "Wayward whale trapped at N.S. power plant"
   <http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1093382072521_88791272>
"A hydroelectric plant in Nova Scotia remained shut down Tuesday after a
 wayward whale swam through the underwater gates that connect the facility
 with the Bay of Fundy"

8. "Fish force Michigan nuke plant shut down"  [expired link]
   <http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20030424_1068.html>
"Nuclear power plant on Lake Michigan shuts down after fish swim into
 cooling system"

9. "Beaver blamed in phone outage"
   <http://www.detnews.com/2004/metro/0407/04/d06w-202240.htm>
"Northeastern Michigan had a problem to chew on: Long-distance phone service
 was interrupted for more than six hours after a beaver apparently gnawed
 through a fiber optic cable"

10. "Nesting snakes cause of faulty traffic lights"
   <http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_659888.html>
"Austrian police ordered to check some faulty traffic lights discovered it
 was being occupied by a family of snakes"

11. "Bear causes oil spill in N.W.T."
   <http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2004/07/29/562272-cp.html>
"A curious black bear caused an oil spill near [Fort Simpson] in the North-
 west Territories, say officials"

12. "Hamster had no inkling of printer danger"
   <http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1078560.htm>
"A German hamster called Teddy has sparked a police rescue mission after
 getting stuck inside a computer printer because he was too fat to get back
 out"

(a John West post)