Re: Internet mauled by bears

[Jason LeBlanc <jml () packetpimp org>]

We have had fiber shot with what apparently was apparently a handgun in 
down town Miami.  Interesting that is fairly common.

On 09/19/2011 12:45 PM, Eric J Esslinger wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Suresh Ramasubramanian [mailto:ops.lists () gmail com]
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Eugen Leitl<eugen () leitl org>  wrote:
> > > He pointed out that these are the kind of problems city
> > folk probably
> > > don't have in an urban area because there is a bear shortage.
> > And backwoods towns have rednecks with shotguns, and bubba
> > the backhoe driver exists everywhere there's a road ..
> To be honest, while we have had some 'shotgun peppered' fiber runs in our rural TN town (mostly in one spot, due to 
> dove hunters), after comparing notes with a lady that works for Mediacom I think it is preferable to having to have security 
> escorts for their crews in some rough urban areas because gangs will shoot up plant then wait for the crews to show up so they 
> can rob them.
>
> Everyone has issues as which are as diverse as the areas we deploy in.
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