Weasel ate my particle accelerator

This week we learn that operations at the Large Hadron Collider have been set back after a small weasel chewed through wiring on a 66 kilovolt transformer.

This brings back memories of an incident of suspected fowl play behind a power cut in 2009. And of an early raccoon attack at Fermilab in 2006.

This looks like a suicide attack by a determined furry terrorist. What is going on here? Is there some critter conspiracy to hold back fundamental physics research? Do they know something we don't and fear the consequences if we uncover further mysteries of the universe?

Source: weasel, LHC

Comments

[the dobermans]

Maybe the little burrower had a hankering for some fermions.

Mmmmm. Fermions.

[Astrarian]

I reckon it all hearkens back to Felicia the ferret cleaning the Fermilab pipes back in the 70s. Clearly she didn't like the job, or she was ticked off when they made a robot to replace her, so she swore vengeance on particle physics forever and ever. Petty ferret.

[Shipmun]

Alternative title: Pop Goes the Particle Accelerator (and Weasel)

[Themaskedferret]

I am not responsible for what my brethren get up to.

[Booster Spice]

Do you need pest control, a vet,

or a Doctor?

[Singularity Dream]

I think they are just being paid by the mice that set up the whole Earth experiment.

[Bad Horse]

Clearly, we still survive only in those branches of the multiverse in which random events have prevented certain particle physics experiments from destroying the universe.