Vengeful Rodents (in no way associated with politics) Chapter 1

This is another entry from the "Stories I can't make up" file.

Many of you may be aware of another vengeful rodent story where a New Mexico man reportedly had his house burned down by a flaming mouse. Though initially reported by a number of national media outlets, This story has been subsequently disproven. However, here in Houston, we have are own destructive rodents.

Yesterday, the Metrorail was shut down completely for half a day due to a short circuit in the system and a subsequent loss of power. Today, Metro officials announced that they found the cause for this outage. It seems a hungry rat had gnawed off enough of the power cable's covering to allow rain water from the rain of Monday and Tuesday to flow into the cable creating the short.

I was hopeful that a multi-million dollar system I depend on regularly would be able to withstand an attack from a hungry street rat. I guess that was just wishful thinking.

More news and music reviews from the Christmas acquistions coming later.