[89583] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Fire in bakery fries fiber optic cable
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lasher, Donn)
Mon Mar 27 11:38:29 2006
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 08:37:57 -0800
From: "Lasher, Donn" <DLasher@newedgenetworks.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
>I used to have a customer who were in the forestry business. They had
a hundred miles or so of railroad down South that >went from one of
their sawmills to places that had lots of trees, and ran some telecom
>cables along them. Where they had bridges, the cables would hang
>underneath the bridges. They had some cable problems during the rainy
season, due to wetness, but they also ran into
>problems during hunting season with guys named Bubba who'd shoot at
birds on their cables (presumably when they were
>taking a break from their day job of driving backhoes...)
Speaking of Backhoes, there was a picture I had saved at one point,
can't find it now, maybe someone else has it..
It shows a backhoe, half-fallen down into a hole, on fire, huge tower of
flames coming up out of the hole. Sitting right next to the hole (this
picture was pre-popularity of photoshop, so I assume it to be legit) was
a big sign that said "Natural Gas Pipeline, do not dig".
Anyone who has this picture, email me offline.
-donn
