[113448] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Outside plant protection, fiber cuts, interwebz down oh noes!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jamie Bowden)
Mon Apr 13 09:09:40 2009
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:07:15 -0400
In-Reply-To: <D756C4C4-BA1C-4F4F-8D62-2DEAC1C853C2@inebraska.com>
From: "Jamie Bowden" <jamie@photon.com>
To: "Andy Ringsmuth" <andyring@inebraska.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
You forgot the clip board. Without the clip board, no one will believe
it.
J
-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Ringsmuth [mailto:andyring@inebraska.com]=20
Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 1:52 PM
To: Daryl G. Jurbala
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Outside plant protection, fiber cuts, interwebz down oh
noes!
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 =20
>> cover. Most likely can't be done by one person. Can they be locked? =20
>> Or were the carriers simply relying on obscurity/barrier to entry?
>
>
> Your understanding is incorrect. I'm an average sized guy and I can =20
> pull a manhole cover with one hand on the right tool. It might take =20
> 2 hands if it hasn't been opened recently and has lots of pebbles =20
> and dirt jammed in around it. It's like everything else: if you =20
> 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 =20
any tools. I've removed countless manhole covers to retrieve balls, =20
frisbees, etc., with nothing more than my bare hands. It's a pretty =20
trivial task.
Think about it. All anyone would need to do is pull up to the =20
manhole, set a few orange cones around it, put on an orange vest and a =20
hard hat, and crawl on in with your wire cutters and bolt cutter. =20
Guaranteed NO ONE will even question it.
-Andy
