Dead Snake Halts Bullet Trains

A snake fried itself on the overhead wire of the Nagano Shinkansen line yesterday, causing a power outage that halted service for about an hour. Here’s a video report on the incident, which includes a close up of the dead snake:

5 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - October 25, 2007 at 8:13 am

Categories: Odd / Strange Tags: japan, shinkansen, snake, video

http://nonplayercharacter.blogspot.com/ NPC

I wish my news had awesome music like that…
http://www.equinoxio.org/ Julián Ortega Martínez

Last week a similar incident happened in my country. A snake, who was known by the technicians and everyone at the energy company, fell into a 10,000kW transformer (of course it died) and caused a 2-hour blackout in Neiva (a city 230 km southwest Bogotá). They initially thought it was a terrorist attack by guerrillas. This is the video (in Spanish; it has no “awesome music” though).

http://nonplayercharacter.blogspot.com/ NPC

aww, too bad.

Akimu

how funny that the channel is call NNN instead of CNN.

The Overthinker

Not really. When you have a News Network in Nippon, the name Nippon News Network is not a stretch. Hence NNN.

Dead Snake Halts Bullet Trains

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