Something curious happened in Celaya, Guanajuato. After several traffic lights collapsed, and with it traffic, it was discovered that the cause of the breakdowns was a plague of mice.
In various parts of Celaya, Guanajuato, infestations of mice damaged the wiring of the traffic light system; on three cruise ships they gnawed at the driving lines and caused short.
The director of Municipal Traffic and Road Police, Martín Filiberto García Medina, explained that The rodents entered through three or four centimeter gaps, causing damage to the fiber optic networks..
He said that this week was very conflictive in terms of light failure alterations and it was thought that it was on the part of the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), but when they reviewed they found that the damage had been caused by four-legged animals.
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“The mice are doing their thing, they start to gnaw on the cables and cause shorts, the mouse that caused the short dies, the traffic light goes out and the flash comes on”.
In some places they found electrocuted animalssaid.
The damage occurred on the Juan José Torres Landa, Avenida Tecnológico, México-Japón boulevards and in the Eje.
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The director of Traffic and Road Police described that they went to the affected points where They found the wiring with small bites in sections of 3 or 4 centimeters, but it was necessary to replace the entire line; A card with damage was also located.
García Medina said that The holes through which this harmful fauna enters are so small that it is not possible to place traps to catch them, so it was decided to use poison..
What caused the plague?
The public servant pointed out that At another point, the proliferation of rats, due to the fact that some poultry shops were throwing waste into the drain, led to damage to the boulevard signaling system..
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Faced with this situation, they filed a complaint with Civil Protection to get their attention. “to the tenants who were throwing waste from a rotisserie into the drain and that caused the mice to come out, so they got into the pole, climbed up and also bit the cables,” he stated.
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