Nagano poops out!

[Taro Toporific]

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Bird poop disables 25,000 traffic signals in Nagano
Japan Today / Sept. 02, 2013
Police and motorists in Shiojiri and Matsumoto cities in Nagano Prefecture had to deal with nearly a half an hour of dead traffic lights on Aug 28. The cause of this menace was none other than mankind’s greatest airborne threat – bird droppings.
According to the Nagano branch of the Chubu Electric Power Company, a large number of birds had been defecating on an insulator in the Idegawa Substation in Matsumoto. The pile of crap got so huge that it dripped down a meter length of the insulator and caused a short triggering an automatic shutdown.
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[Coligny]

Reliably powering traffic signals is not exactly a priority with chubu electric...

They just go dark, don't even blink red or yellow... Real pleasure...

[Samurai_Jerk]

I wonder how many years of buildup that was.

[Coligny]

Pretty sure dry bird shit is not that conductive...

But i wonder if properties can be reactivated by rainwater...

[Samurai_Jerk]

Pretty sure dry bird shit is not that conductive...

But i wonder if properties can be reactivated by rainwater...

Maybe a massive flock of birds all got the shits at the same time.

[matsuki]

TIJ, wasn't in the manual so it was ignored since installation...

[yanpa]

Damn, what will they be blaming next? Rats?

[IparryU]

Damn, what will they be blaming next? Rats?

No, that is Daiichi where they blame rats... now someone gots to go blame crows...