[129872] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US hunters shoot down Google fibre
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Tue Sep 21 17:28:48 2010
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:27:21 -0700
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Michael Painter <tvhawaii@shaka.com>
In-Reply-To: <B5C3CC61D5724C63914C51E557E26FF0@DELL16>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 9/21/10 2:10 PM, Michael Painter wrote:
> 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.
you don't hunt deer with buckshot...
the shotgun consideration is due to the range, and the expectation is
that your target is under 100 meters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotgun_slug
>> ~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
>
