A raccoon was behind the massive power outage that knocked out electricity to some 7,000 customers in downtown Toronto for hours Thursday night.

A raccoon was behind the massive power outage that knocked out electricity to some 7,000 customers in downtown Toronto for hours Thursday night.

  • Cralder@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    10 months ago

    A raccoon was behind the massive power outage that knocked out electricity to some 7,000 customers in downtown Toronto for hours Thursday night.

    Hydro One said a raccoon “made contact with equipment” at a downtown station, which cut the lights for parts of the city. The raccoon’s condition is currently unknown

    Fucking gold

    • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      10 months ago

      The raccoon’s condition is currently unknown charcoal and meatspray.

      I’ll tell you what’s wrong with it, my lad. 'E’s dead, that’s what’s wrong with it!

      No, no, 'e’s uh,…he’s resting

      Look, my lad, I know a dead parrot raccoon when I see one, and I’m looking at one right now.

      No no he’s not dead, he’s, he’s restin’! Remarkable bird mamal, the Norwegian Blue Canadian Trash Panda, idn’it, ay? Beautiful plumage!

      The plumage don’t enter into it. It’s stone dead.

      Nononono, no, no! 'E’s resting!

      All right then, if he’s restin’, I’ll wake him up!

      • atx_aquarian@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        Nah, we’ll only splurge for that when the equipment serves at least eight thousand customers. Seven thousand is just not enough to justify it.

  • Stamets@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    10 months ago

    It’s pretty peak Toronto in all honesty. I mean this is the same city that set up a lil shrine for a dead raccoon that was just on the sidewalk. We’re a weird city. This isn’t even the first time it’s happened. There was another blackout in Scarborough, part of the Greater Toronto Area, that happened because of a raccoon.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    10·
    10 months ago

    “Hydro One(opens in a new tab) said a raccoon “made contact with equipment” at a downtown station, which cut the lights for parts of the city.”

    Whoah, whoah, whoah… Raccoon OK?

    “The raccoon’s condition is currently unknown.”

    🥺

    • Cinner@lemmy.worldBEnglish
      11·
      10 months ago

      The raccoon’s condition is currently unknown.

      Dry leather with a hint of bone underneath the char.

  • moody@lemmings.worldEnglish
    9·
    10 months ago

    Does anyone else think Avenue Road is a stupid name? Who thought that was a good idea?

    • Ddub@lemmy.caEnglish
      18·
      10 months ago

      The saying goes that when the Brits were marking out Toronto the surveyor put a stake in the road and said, let’s 'ave a new road 'ere