[Dr. Beckenstein]

Originally Posted by L.J.Steele

I learned a new word from the Economist -- Marderbisse -- a kind of German car insurance vor damage by stone martens (a weasel-like critter). Apparently they like to chew wiring in cars and may have brought down the Large Hadron Collider briefly.

Yep. And as a minor unnecessarily fact: "Automarder" (car marten) is an old slang world for car thief.