$50,000 reward for Verizon cable cutter

Sat Jan 15 03:26:04 UTC 2005

Disgruntled customers don't know how to cut X hundred pair cables.

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Martin Hannigan
hannigan at verisign.com
Verisign, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog at merit.edu <owner-nanog at merit.edu>
To: nanog at merit.edu <nanog at 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.

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