[10965] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BOOM! there goes WorldCom
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Wieling)
Thu Jul 17 18:58:44 1997
From: Eric Wieling <eric@cronus.ccti.net>
To: yone@wolfenet.com
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 17:40:26 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: nathan@netrail.net, spork@inch.com, Scott_Landman@zd.com,
bnite@tremere.ios.com, mpearson@games-online.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <33CE94C2.4E7249E0@wolfenet.com> from "Scott Yoneyama" at Jul 17, 97 02:55:15 pm
Some time ago Scott Yoneyama said:
> You're right. I forgot about the decomissioned pipelines. Although,
> you'd be surprised how stupid some of these morons with backhoes are! I
> remember a major MCI cut along their west coast route a few years ago
> that took out the entire northwest for 8 hours. The guy was 600 yards
> away from where his permit allowed him to dig. He stopped when he cut
> the fiber and shut his hoe down. When they got out there, they found
> that he was digging right next to train tracks, was inches from cutting
> a high voltage power line that surely would have killed him, and was
> also fairly close to a gas line.
Is there any compensation to MCI in a situation like this? I would
think that multi million dollar fines would make people think a little
before they start digging.
--Eric
