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75,000 left without phone service when thieves steal equipment (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Max Inux)
Sun Jan 3 22:31:12 1999
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 22:06:47 -0500
From: Max Inux <maxinux@bigfoot.com>
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From: William Knowles <erehwon@kizmiaz.dis.org>
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Subject: 75,000 left without phone service when thieves steal equipment
LAS VEGAS (AP) [1.3.99] - Three men wearing ski masks broke
into a Sprint telephone office, tied up workers and stole
computer equipment, leaving an estimated 75,000 customers
without phone service Sunday.
After tying up the two Sprint employees and a contractor,
they shot them with stun guns, police spokesman Steve Meriwether
said. The workers were not seriously injured.
No arrests had been made, and police had no suspects.
The thieves took telephone-related computer equipment that
was in use at the time, knocking out service to some customers,
Sprint spokeswoman Detra Page said. Sprint has 845,000 customers
in the Las Vegas Valley.
``It was equipment that was being used to relay calls,'' Ms. Page
said. ``They did know what they were after. It is believed it was
stolen to be resold.''
Service was restored to all customers within seven hours.
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