A mouse brings down a major supermarket

They can be very destructive

They are very destructive and carry a lot of diseases. I finally had to call Terminix and pay big bucks to have them trap, etc. They seem to be staying down the basement now. Knock on wood.

Not to mention how they stop women in their tracks. Can you imagine how much money that cost to repair? I had to have the wiring in my car repaired because the annual checkup I do at the dealership found evidence that they’d been nibbling at the wires. They fixed it AND put some deterrent on the car wires. Makes me think that feeding the neighborhood cats is an investment!!!

It reminds me of Mighty Mouse, a cartoon character from my youth.

I'll say it more power to the mouse,

That was a powerful little mouse! In the summertime here, sometimes mice or a squirrel will wiggle it's way into a transformer station, and chew a wire in half, resulting in a massive power outage--sometimes, for hours. It's hard to keep those little devils out of mischief!

IGA really lucked out! I remember when IGA was everywhere here (I assume they are the same chain as those here). It’s kind of crazy that a little creature can cause so much havoc.

Let's see... you used a photo of a guinea pig because when you tried searching for a pic of a mouse all you got was pictures of computer mice?

Seems hard to believe Mice can really be destructive at times.

Cute guinea there. Mighty Mouse this story reminded me of.

Haha mousey..I was going to say that is not a mouse

Sometimes I think they know. A Martens chewed the cables of our car during a spring day. We were not happy a bit.

We have IGA out here. That is amusing. Those little boogers can be huge in other ways.

The might of a tiny mouse . Very interesting! Coles need to go for a good pest control, so do others in the neighborhood. Little mouse gers the headlines

This is slightly amusing but more of a frightening prospect. I think cables in such a case should have extra protection. Else such a scenario could repeat elsewhere as well !

That mouse was bad to do that. It sure helped the other store.

It sounds like Coles needs to invest more in pest control.

That sucks lol I had a rat chew some car cables of my project car in the garage over the summer. I was very upset, had to spend like 800 bucks on a whole new harness

It certainly would not be amusing to Cole's, nor to me either, if it happened to me. It is sort of amusing how the people panicked right away, and bought out all of the products from IGA. They must have thought the mice might strike twice, and hit on IGA too. I hate destruction, and waste, and it was a shame Cole's never laid down enough bait in their stores to prevent such an avoidable loss. I hope they control the mice in the future. Perhaps, such important cables should be protected by being inserted into casing tubing, as I have heard it done elsewhere, if the mice cannot be fully controlled.

I wonder how it was not electrocuted in the process. I am reminded of "a chain is only as strong as its weakest link."