Residents of a northern Virginia community were left stunned after a rodent knocked out their electricity Friday.
Over 1,500 residents in the Tyson, Va., area experienced outages overnight, according to WUSA-TV.
Peggy Fox, a spokeswoman for Dominion Energy in Northern Virginia, revealed the cause of the outage on Twitter: a pesky little, curious critter.
Fox wrote that the outage was due to a rat “that got into some of the equipment” and caused an outage that left 1,588 customers in the dark.
The outage was resolved after just over an hour, Fox reported.
Twitter users joked about the interruption and the rat’s involvement on Saturday.
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