Now crows are internet threat: Taste for fiber cable.

[edDV]

There have been worms and viruses. Now the birds are determined to bring the net down.

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20060613TDY03001.htm

The Yomiuri Shimbun

Fiber-optic cables used for high-speed Internet services are being severed by crows playing with the wires and using them for nesting material and perhaps as a form of stress relief, a phenomenon that increases with the breeding season.

According to Tokyo Electric Power Co., which has a fiber-optic network stretched across power poles in the greater metropolitan area, crows damaged cables in 689 cases last year. The number increases especially in March and April, when crows collect twigs and other material for nest-building for the breeding season. This year, 407 cases have been noted over just two months. ...

[Cobra]

Moved to Off Topic.

[lordsmurf]

I believe it. Crows and squirrels screw up my telephone and cable several times a year.

[Grimey]

you think thats bad.....I read about this the other day

A tiny mouse created panic after it cut electric power to more than 40 percent of Phnom Penh in Cambodia.

The mouse managed to short circuit a 40-megawatt power plant south of the city.

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7003895868

[somebodeez]

I believe it. Crows and squirrels screw up my telephone and cable several times a year.

Same here with the squirrels.

[yoda313]

So if you see a bird shoot it - it may be taking down the internet and carry the bird flu - talk about killing two birds with one stone









THAT WAS ONLY A JOKE - I DON'T CONDONE THAT KIND OF VIOLENCE - unless its on tv

[SquirrelDip]

Wasn't me... Honest...

[ZAPPER]

I have seen where mice have chewed off cabling insulation under raised computer floors before. It was incredible how much they chewed off before it was noticed. We had to go in and remove all of the office furniture and fixtures for a complete remodel.

The funniest thing that I have seen from Crow damage was a lady that had a little Coy pond in her back yard. Crows were finding little rocks and flying them in to drop into the pond. The lady was cleaning the rocks out of the pond at about a rate of a five gallon bucket a week.

The above ties into a story that I heard years ago. In Moscow to help with the pidgeon problem they brought in crows to scare off the pidgeons. But supposedly the crows like this pebble dropping sport and used the skylights of the city for targets. Having seen the ladys coy pond makes me believe the Moscow story.