It's because of the hamster conspiracy for world domination. Not many people know this, and government is trying to keep it secret, but military research in the 1950s attempted to train hamsters to attack enemy electronics by chewing through insulation. One of the few people surviving this research, Barry Buzacott (not his real name) now has revealed that electronic equipment brought close to hamsters detected communications between the rodents on a very high level. All hamsters are born with an intrinsic knowledge of physics and chemistry superior to anything known to modern science.

After years of work scientists managed to translate the emissions and found that the rodents were planning to use their cute and innocent appearance to spread around as many backyards as possible.

At a certain signal. thought to be generated by a secret community of "wild" hamsters located in central Asia, all hamsters were to attack all human communications and from there move on to food stores. This plan was stimulated by the military experiments themselves, which is where the hamsters got the idea, it supplanted an older plan merely involving food stores.

Mr. "Buzacott" now lives in considerable fear in a trailer in a southern US state, where he uses a duplicating machine to reproduce stencilled warnings. These can sometimes be found tacked to trees, but never near his home.

It isn't well known but some governments, including that of Australia, has banned the import of hamsters in an attempt to prevent this catastrophe.