Airborne fish sparks New Jersey power outage, electricity company says (cnn.com)

One is reminded of the avian-lofted baguette which brought down the LHC for some time: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/nov/06/cern-big-ban...

>A fish that fell from a bird’s grip landed on a transponder in Sayreville, located just southwest of New York’s Staten Island, according to Jersey Central Power and Light Company spokesperson Chris Hoenig.

I suspect that the "transponder" was a transformer.