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Re: China's cable firms fight deadly turf war

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Francis)
Thu May 30 11:23:31 2002

Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 08:16:45 -0700
From: Scott Francis <darkuncle@darkuncle.net>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
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On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 12:54:36AM -0400, sean@donelan.com said:
> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-311460,00.html
[snip]
> type. They work for one of the many rival telecom companies who are laying
> their own cables. He calls for backup, but the five colleagues who arrive
> within minutes are no match for the workers. Soon 20 of them are beating
> the 26-year-old patrol rider as a crouches in the grass. His colleagues
> flee and he ends up in hospital having stitches in his head."

I bet they wish they only had to worry about backhoes. At least backhoes
won't come after you and beat you senseless. (awaiting stories to the
contrary now ...)

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