Residents of the northern B.C. town of Tumbler Ridge suddenly found themselves without many modern conveniences recently.
Further investigation discovered it was a uniquely Canadian service disruption.
Just after 4 a.m. on Saturday, nearly 1,000 Tumbler Ridge residents lost their internet, TV or mobile service.
Telus technicians scrambled to determine what had happened and discovered their main cable, which was buried a metre underground, had been exposed.
The four and a half inch conduit had been breached and the was cable severed in multiple locations.
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Turns out, the saboteurs were beavers.
They had dug down to the cable and actually used some of the material to build their dam.
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Technicians went to work in the partially frozen ground and got services back up by Sunday afternoon.
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