[11015] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BOOM! there goes WorldCom
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Yoneyama)
Fri Jul 18 13:27:17 1997
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 09:49:25 -0700
From: Scott Yoneyama <yone@wolfenet.com>
Reply-To: yone@wolfenet.com
To: Eric Wieling <eric@cronus.ccti.net>
CC: nathan@netrail.net, spork@inch.com, Scott_Landman@zd.com,
bnite@tremere.ios.com, mpearson@games-online.com, nanog@merit.edu
Eric Wieling wrote:
> 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
The comment from the VP of Operations who came out to brief us on this
at the time was something to the effect of: "trust me, we'll be putting
this guy out of business and adding a backhoe to our portfolio."
--
Scott Yoneyama
Director
Starcom
(206) 448-4034
(206) 448-4485 fax
yone@wolfenet.com
"The only way between Canada and the U.S. and all points along the way"
