[113384] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Outside plant protection, fiber cuts, interwebz down oh noes!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Ringsmuth)
Fri Apr 10 13:53:58 2009
From: Andy Ringsmuth <andyring@inebraska.com>
To: Daryl G. Jurbala <daryl@introspect.net>
In-Reply-To: <3FF2479B-EA99-4B18-94A6-C221C9CFF2F0@introspect.net>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:51:42 -0500
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Apr 10, 2009, at 12:37 PM, Daryl G. Jurbala wrote:
>>
>> 3) From what I understand it's not trivial to raise a manhole
>> cover. Most likely can't be done by one person. Can they be locked?
>> Or were the carriers simply relying on obscurity/barrier to entry?
>
>
> Your understanding is incorrect. I'm an average sized guy and I can
> pull a manhole cover with one hand on the right tool. It might take
> 2 hands if it hasn't been opened recently and has lots of pebbles
> and dirt jammed in around it. It's like everything else: if you
> know how to do it, and you have the right tool, it's simple.
Agreed. Manhole covers are very simple to remove. I don't even need
any tools. I've removed countless manhole covers to retrieve balls,
frisbees, etc., with nothing more than my bare hands. It's a pretty
trivial task.
Think about it. All anyone would need to do is pull up to the
manhole, set a few orange cones around it, put on an orange vest and a
hard hat, and crawl on in with your wire cutters and bolt cutter.
Guaranteed NO ONE will even question it.
-Andy
