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RE: $50,000 reward for Verizon cable cutter
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Church, Chuck)
Sat Jan 15 09:55:06 2005
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 08:54:33 -0600
From: "Church, Chuck" <cchurch@netcogov.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Maybe a current Verizon employee looking for extra OT...
Chuck Church
Lead Design Engineer
CCIE #8776, MCNE, MCSE
Netco Government Services - Design & Implementation Team
1210 N. Parker Rd.
Greenville, SC 29609
Home office: 864-335-9473
Cell: 703-819-3495
cchurch@netcogov.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Joshua Brady
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 10:32 PM
To: Hannigan, Martin
Cc: wsimpson@greendragon.com; nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: $50,000 reward for Verizon cable cutter
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:
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> Disgruntled customers don't know how to cut X hundred pair cables.
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> Martin Hannigan
> hannigan@verisign.com
> Verisign, Inc.
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> -----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
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> Sean Donelan wrote:
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> >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.
> >
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>http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/01/13/veri
zon_
> 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. :-)
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> 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).
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> Sigh, not enough criminal instinct here.
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> --
> William Allen Simpson
> Key fingerprint =3D 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C
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Joshua Brady
