It's more likely than you think. http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2009-11/bread-loving-bird-shuts-down-lhc Hey, look, something else shut it down. It's getting ridiculous.
Family Guy was right. The New York Times is retarded. Seriously. How can they create such a weird story that they can eventually mention Harry Potter in an article about nuclear research? Idiots. (Behind the time travel thing link.)
It seems that nature itself is conspiring against this machine, does it know something we don't? Probably, because we just want to see what happens when we finally get it going.