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Re: Internet 1, Backhoe 0

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher X. Candreva)
Fri Oct 9 10:57:34 1998

Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 09:34:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Christopher X. Candreva" <chris@westnet.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199810091304.JAA06976@sulcus.op.net>

On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Jeff Weisberg wrote:

> [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.

While this is funny, I really hope the backhoe driver was OK.

-Chris

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