BOOM! there goes WorldCom
Eric Wieling
eric at cronus.ccti.net
Thu Jul 17 22:40:26 UTC 1997
Some time ago Scott Yoneyama said:
> You're right. I forgot about the decomissioned pipelines. Although,
> you'd be surprised how stupid some of these morons with backhoes are! I
> remember a major MCI cut along their west coast route a few years ago
> that took out the entire northwest for 8 hours. The guy was 600 yards
> away from where his permit allowed him to dig. He stopped when he cut
> the fiber and shut his hoe down. When they got out there, they found
> that he was digging right next to train tracks, was inches from cutting
> a high voltage power line that surely would have killed him, and was
> also fairly close to a gas line.
Is there any compensation to MCI in a situation like this? I would
think that multi million dollar fines would make people think a little
before they start digging.
--Eric
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