[129871] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US hunters shoot down Google fibre
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Painter)
Tue Sep 21 17:11:14 2010
From: "Michael Painter" <tvhawaii@shaka.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:10:25 -1000
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
David DiGiacomo wrote:
> Instead of a rifle, how about a shotgun? It fires a nice wide spread shot pattern. I think you would be much more likely
> to do
> some damage (ie: knock fiber off a pole) with something like that. Here in New Jersey it is illegal to use a rifle to
> hunt deer,
> so typically you will find hunters using a bow/arrow or Shotgun and you will see a lot of road signs (or other abandon
> junk) that
> has been victim of a shotgun blast.
>
> ~Dave
Birds like to sit on wires and assholes like to shoot them.
50 years ago I carried around the .22 slug I dug out of the lead-sheathed cable while troubleshooting the outer marker for
McClellan AFB in the middle of a rainy night.
--Michael
