Fried Squirrel

First the "BOOM", then no electricity and then the all too familiar routine checking the neighbors, changing the phone to call the electric company to report the outage and, too frequently, having to justify the call. In Spanish.
Add to that now calling the cell phone folks to alert them as well, and then wait.
And wait.
I decided to walk down the street to where I thought the "BOOM" had come from and found the fuse on the post disconnected and just hanging there.
And visible on top of the transformer was the tail of a squirrel.
The normally sure footed critter must have slipped and hit the fuse and disconnected it and lost its life in the process.
Later, much later at night when the crew came to fix the problem, I saw, in the glare of some powerful searchlight, the guy on the ladder grab the squirrel and throw it on the ground.
I went looking for it this morning, but some nocturnal scavenger must have gotten to it and had the good luck of getting not only squirrel, but fried squirrel.