Bamboo-wielding hooligans attack electrical engineers

Being an electrical engineer these days is almost as dangerous as working on one of those Alaskan crab fishing boats -- at least it is during the World Cup. Electricity offices in Bangladesh and Argentina were stormed in the past weak by mobs of football (soccer) fans who were angry about power failures that interrupted television coverage of World Cup matches. The hooligans in Bangladesh were apparently wielding bamboo sticks. The Kansas City Star reported that the last time the entire country of Bangladesh was impacted by blackouts was in the 1990s, when a monkey electrocuted itself at the main hydroelectric facilty. Stay tuned for more developments regarding possible power outages during the World Cup -- unless, of course, the power goes out, in which case you won't be able to stay tuned. (This shouldn't be a problem in the U.S., because our electrical engineers are really good and nobody here really cares that much about soccer anyway.)