I haven't had a chance to take pictures yet, but it looked like the wires got stuck in the cooling fan -- but there are no moving parts close to the distro and wires over there. Plus the parking area was near the end of Terminal-C at Kansas City Airport. The noise generally keeps varmints away.
I'll take some pics soon. It looks like the high voltage just blasted the daylights out of both wires.
On the plus side, it started after a cold soak (~25F), and stayed running on 2 cylinders.
RH77
EDIT:
Clark, I'd like to try to fumigate this here chair. If you don't mind my askin', how much did she set you back?