[113465] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cart and Horse
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Petach)
Mon Apr 13 12:29:08 2009
In-Reply-To: <200904131121.51828.lowen@pari.edu>
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:19:16 -0700
From: Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>
To: Lamar Owen <lowen@pari.edu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 4/13/09, Lamar Owen <lowen@pari.edu> wrote:
> On Monday 13 April 2009 11:06:55 Roy wrote:
> > A friend mentioned at dinner yesterday that he spotted several AT&T
> > trucks next to manholes in the area affected by the fiber cut. They
> > were busy welding the manhole covers to their rims.
>
> :-)
>
> Sounds like a cutting torch or portable chop saw will become standard service
> equipment for them after all.
*heh* Just in case the next vandals slice the fiber, then weld the manhole
covers shut on the way out?
I guess the only thing worse would be for the vandals to have a truckload
of quick-drying cement with them; slice the fiber, dump quick-drying
cement into the vault, pop the lid on, tamp thermite in the gap around
the rim and flash weld it shut. Talk about creating an extended outage
scenario. ^_^;
