[20334] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet 1, Backhoe 0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Foster)
Fri Oct 9 10:09:44 1998
From: Dan Foster <dsf@frontiernet.net>
In-Reply-To: <199810091304.JAA06976@sulcus.op.net> from Jeff Weisberg at "Oct 9, 98 09:04:49 am"
To: jaw@Op.Net (Jeff Weisberg)
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 09:55:36 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: dsf@frontiernet.net (Dan Foster), nanog@merit.edu
Hot Diggety! On a bright and sunny day, Jeff Weisberg allegedly said...
>
> [Atlantic County, NJ] While attempting to wreck
> havoc on the world's telecommunications infrastructure,
> a backhoe mistook a gas main as a fiber optic cable.
> The evil yellow beast was destroyed in the resulting
> fireball.
Now *that*'s poetic justice! Too bad we don't have video of this
happy event :-)
Now just if we could get those t-shirts with backhoes-targeted-in-gun-sights,
then that'd be 20-30 orders right there, easily.
-Dan
