[99434] in North American Network Operators' Group
Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Fri Sep 21 15:07:14 2007
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:03:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5148125.html
(AUSTIN) Telephone service was out for seven hours in rural Central Texas
after bees attacked a construction worker, causing him to jump off his
tractor and hit a lever that lowered an auger that sliced a fiber-optic
line.