[brianwawok]

Code is for me to bury little tiny cables in my backyard 24" down. These giant mega cables have to be at least 36" down, right? Are rodents going 36" deep and eating into cables really a thing?

[dylan604]

at 15,000 volts or whatever, that rodent will only do that once

[dredmorbius]

A RODENT is a redundant occurance of dentifrication of electrical networking technology.

There's always another rat (or squirrel, or rabbit, or mole, or ...)

[dylan604]

That's because they always remove the carcass. You're supposed to leave the carcass of the first one as a warning to all of the others.

Growing up, this was something that occurred multiple times a year. Squirrels would climb the poles and short themselves across the 2 leads on the transformer. Zap, one less squirrel, and several hours without power while the power company came out to diagnose the problem and then send out for a replacement.

[dredmorbius]

You had the power company replace the squirrels?

Independent vendors are faster, cheaper, and offer a more locally-adapted product.

[dylan604]

Wasn't expecting someone to be on dangling modifier patrol!

The squirrels seemed to replace themselves without servicing. If only the transformers were capable of the same thing.

[dredmorbius]

Be thankful it's only the modifiers I'm patrolling ;-)