BEAVER causes internet outage by ‘chewing’ – cutting off North American cables

CUSTOMERS and businesses have been cut off from their internet connection thanks to a beaver in the Canadian woods.

The beaver took down a tree that fell on fiber optic cables, causing a small power outage and disturbing internet activity.

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Beavers are funky creatures with their indestructible, self-sharpening teeth and spindly tails.

Like people, they move with purpose and go about their tasks – which include gnawing trees – with determination.

One beaver’s grit put a small Canadian city in a scramble after killing a set of fiber optic and electricity cables with a felled tree.

A spokesperson for one of the affected utility companies told CTV News the sequence was a “bizarre and uniquely Canadian turn of events.”

Futurism reported that a cleanup crew spotted the beaver’s unmistakable incisor marks at the base of the downed tree.

Businesses in the area could not complete credit card transactions and were forced to turn away customers who didn’t have cash.

This was especially perilous for customers at a remote gas station, where the next closest fill-up is two hours away.

Plans to lay cables on the ocean floor and into the area’s utility grid are in development to prevent further interference from beavers, otters, and the like.

“It’s unusual, but it does happen every once in a while,” another energy company official told CTV.

CBC reported that a similar beaver-initiated incident caused an internet blackout last April.

“So I wouldn’t be a rich man if I had a nickel for every beaver outage, but they do happen.”

The same official said that a small fire was created but quickly tamed.

Fiber optic cables are the traditional way of providing internet connection but they’re few and far between in remote areas.

Satellite-powered internet is a burgeoning industry with Elon Musk’s Starlink and Jeff Bezos’ Project Kuiper leading the way.