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Booze snooze causes countywide blackout
(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-02-11 11:26

A drunken villager who caused a blackout in Wuyang county, Henan province, after he scaled a high-tension wire tower to sleep has been put in a detention house for seven days.

Liu was seen snoozing on the 30-m-high tower at 6:52 pm on Sunday after he had been drinking.

The local electricity company had to suspend supply for more than 30 minutes, costing more than 1 million yuan ($146,400), while firefighters rescued him.