In an incident almost as bizarre as the recent adverse weather excuses used by Merseyrail …
A bird dropping a piece of bread onto outdoor machinery has been blamed for a technical fault at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) this week which saw significant overheating in sections of the mighty particle-punisher’s subterranean 27-km supercooled magnetic doughnut. (source)
Thanks to PopSci.com and El Reg for the story.

