Daily Mail -A major power outage, which left more than six million people in California and Arizona in darkness, was caused by a single maintenance worker, it has been revealed. The power cut took two nuclear retractors offline, grounded flights, caused major traffic jams, and trapped people in elevators and fairground rides in both states...The San Diego County Sheriff's department and other police departments told 10news.com that they have received reports of break-ins and vandalism at homes and businesses...APS, Arizona's largest electricity provider, said a utility worker doing maintenance near Yuma triggered the blackout. Authorities say the outage was accidentally triggered sometime Thursday afternoon when an APS worker removed a piece of monitoring equipment at a power substation in southwest Arizona.
You know that feeling when you fuck up real bad at work or you break something that isn't yours and you get all flustered, red in the face, break into a quick cold sweat? One night at UNF, my boss told me to set up the gym for a graduation and put in like 20 rows of 20 chairs in the basketball arena the next morning. Completely forgot. My boss came in, I was just watching "First 48" or something just sitting there and he flipped the fuck out at me. By the time he was done saying "WHY DON'T YOU HAVE THE FUCKING CHAIRS IN THE GYM", I was already sweating. It ended up taking me like 45 minutes to organize the gym, so it wasn't really the same as say...shutting the power off for 6million people. I would have LOVED to have been with this guy when he removed the piece of monitoring equipment and realized how royally he just fucked up. Just watching the color in his face disappear along with the power in two states is hysterical to think about. All I can picture is the kidnapping scene in "Saving Silverman" when he sees he cut the power to the wrong house..
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