$10bn and what happened?

I can imagine the phonecall. One of the chief funders from the European Union rings the head cheese of the Large Hadron Collider, who probably goes by the name chief Proton, or something scientists find immensely funny, whereas the rest of the non-science geek world does not, for evidence of this scientist humour see here and prepare to laugh, oh yes, not just hilarious but proves why scientists really should be quite a long way under ground, away from normal people. But as we continue the story that today the Large Hadron Collider suffered a powercut. Now if I had invested $10bn in, what is essentially the worlds biggest and most complex donut I'd be expecting a pretty good explanation from those that had built it. It turns out that that part of France/Switzerland had been having some pretty bad storms. So when I am on the phone I expect that storms are a pretty good reason to tell my chief funder and I'd personally accept that.

But...reading further down the story it appears that the LHC has suffered from powercuts before, now what can you imagine stops a $10bn piece of advanced science from working, Storms, obviously. But perhaps it's also the huge amount of energy it consumes that will occasionally trip the machine out, but no, something far more advanced than this. The last power cut was and I quote

 'A previous electrical cut in November 2009 which halted the machine is thought to have occurred when a bird dropped a baguette it was eating at one of the points where the mains electricity supply enters the collider from above ground.'


Yes, that's right you can cause a power cut on the most advanced piece of science the world has created  by getting a pigeon to drop a french sandwich on it. Now that would be a phonecall I would like to have been privy too. Which no doubted started, 'Well, Sir. There was this pigeon and a baguette....'