[139429] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bubba is a 75 year old woman looking to make some extra cash
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin M. Streiner)
Thu Apr 7 21:57:51 2011
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 21:57:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4D9E3747.9090108@thebaughers.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Jason Baugher wrote:
> We had someone come into a cell site and strip out all the outside ground
> leads. Oddly enough they left the ground bars themselves, which would have
> been much more worthwhile. Maybe they came unprepared and only had clippers.
Every once in awhile there is also a story about either a disgruntled
(former) employee or an outsider managing to get into a CO or other
technical space and electrocuting themselves when they try to cut out live
power cables. One group does it for salvage value - the other
(presumably) does it to make some kind of statement or cause their
(former) employer headaches. Neither is particularly bright....
jms