$50,000 reward for Verizon cable cutter

Sat Jan 15 03:37:10 UTC 2005

I know how to cut those cables from experience. A customer isn't showing up
with a battery powered Makita to do it. And they don't know where to cut to
do max damage. If they were cutting SLC splice boxes, sure. Not this. IMHO.
These cuts indicate knowledge. I may be wrong. @shrug@

-M

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Martin Hannigan
hannigan at verisign.com
Verisign, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua Brady <somitho at gmail.com>
To: Hannigan, Martin <hannigan at verisign.com>
CC: wsimpson at greendragon.com <wsimpson at greendragon.com>; nanog at merit.edu
<nanog at merit.edu>
Sent: Fri Jan 14 19:31:30 2005
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 at verisign.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Disgruntled customers don't know how to cut X hundred pair cables.
> 
> ---
> 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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> William Allen Simpson
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> 

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Joshua Brady