How does a common garden slug bring traffic to a standstill? It happened in Darlington, England last Friday morning. Traffic lights went out and a contractor was brought in to repair the control box. They found that a slug had gotten into the controls and short-circuited them. Councillor Chris McEwan said he'd received many complaints about the traffic lights.
The control box will be sealed to keep other critters out. Link -via Arbroath
"A slug was certainly the last thing I was expecting to have caused the problem.
“We do not know how long the slug had been there.
Unfortunately, it was dead by the time we found it, so we were unable to question it.
“Sadly, you just can’t legislate for a rogue slug trying to take out Darlington’s traffic system.”
The control box will be sealed to keep other critters out. Link -via Arbroath