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You Can't Make This Stuff Up

A cooling unit failure has halted the rehabilitation of the Large Hadron Collider due to an unexpected baguette incident.

ByJulianne Dalcanton

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Lead paragraph from the Times Online UK about the latest LHC snafu:

The rehabilitation of the beleaguered Large Hadron Collider was on hold tonight after the failure of one of its powerful cooling units caused by an errant chunk of baguette.

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