Squirrel blamed for government Internet outage in Ohio county

Squirrel Knocks Out Internet in Ohio County

An Ohio County has solved the mystery of a weekend-long internet blackout: It was a squirrel, not a careless contractor as first thought. A Medina County official says a squirrel nesting inside part of the local fiber network chewed through lines on Feb. 20, taking down phone and internet service...

Squirrel blamed for government Internet outage in Ohio county

A network outage that caused government offices to lose phone and Internet services in an Ohio county is now being blamed on a meddlesome squirrel.

The squirrel that broke the internet...in Medina County

MEDINA, Ohio -- A single squirrel is being blamed for a countywide network outage that knocked Cuyahoga County systems offline for an entire weekend last month.