[77152] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: $50,000 reward for Verizon cable cutter
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joshua Brady)
Fri Jan 14 22:32:05 2005
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 22:31:30 -0500
From: Joshua Brady <somitho@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Joshua Brady <somitho@gmail.com>
To: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
Cc: "wsimpson@greendragon.com" <wsimpson@greendragon.com>,
"nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <A206819EF47CBE4F84B5CB4A303CEB7A14A680@dul1wnexmb01.vcorp.ad.vrsn.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Your not giving customers enough credit, your a customer yourself
arn't you? Do you know how to cut those cables? Would anyone else on
the list who isn't a disgruntled verizon employee?
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 22:26:04 -0500, Hannigan, Martin
<hannigan@verisign.com> wrote:
>
>
> Disgruntled customers don't know how to cut X hundred pair cables.
>
> ---
> Martin Hannigan
> hannigan@verisign.com
> Verisign, Inc.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu <owner-nanog@merit.edu>
> To: nanog@merit.edu <nanog@merit.edu>
> Sent: Fri Jan 14 19:10:35 2005
> Subject: Re: $50,000 reward for Verizon cable cutter
>
> Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> >Verizon is offering a $50,000 reward for information about several
> >acts of cut cables in the last couple of months. At least three lines
> >were cut in the last week.
> >
> >http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/01/13/verizon_
> seeking_information_about_cable_cutter/
> >
> >
> >
> With a power saw? Goodness, that sounds noisy in the middle of the
> night. I'd have thought a low tech ax would do the job. :-)
>
> Probably a disgruntled customer, with cable bundles that repair says
> were supposed to be replaced 12 years ago, but engineering says isn't
> in the budget (like my SBC/Ameritech neighborhood in Ann Arbor).
>
> Sigh, not enough criminal instinct here.
>
> --
> William Allen Simpson
> Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32
>
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Joshua Brady
