“Internet service was down for about 900 customers in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., after a beaver chewed through a crucial fibre cable, causing “extensive” damage.” says a report from the CBC. “In a statement, Telus spokesperson Liz Sauvé wrote that in a “very bizarre and uniquely Canadian turn of events,” crews found that a beaver chewed through the cable at multiple points, causing the internet to go down on Saturday at about 4 a.m. “Our team located a nearby dam, and it appears the beavers dug underground alongside the creek to reach our cable, which is buried about three feet underground and protected by a 4.5-inch thick conduit. The beavers first chewed through the conduit before chewing through the cable in multiple locations,” the statement said.”
Unlike what we would expect in the US, the outage did not result in any calls for resignations or investigations of local government officials or utility managers, nor were there any calls to overthrow the government for “insufferable tyranny” because people had to do without Facebook for a few hours. Reports indicate most Canadians responded to the incident with statements such as: “Oh well, ya know these things happen. We’ll get by. Hey ya know, why don’t you turn off the computer and read something or have a Molsons.”