Internet 1, Backhoe 0

Fri Oct 9 16:36:12 UTC 1998

At 09:55 AM 10/9/98 -0400, Dan Foster wrote:
>Hot Diggety! On a bright and sunny day, Jeff Weisberg allegedly said...
>> 
>> [Atlantic County, NJ] While attempting to wreck 
>> havoc on the world's telecommunications infrastructure, 
>> a backhoe mistook a gas main as a fiber optic cable. 
>> The evil yellow beast was destroyed in the resulting 
>> fireball.
>
>Now *that*'s poetic justice! Too bad we don't have video of this
>happy event :-)
>
>Now just if we could get those t-shirts with backhoes-targeted-in-gun-sights,
>then that'd be 20-30 orders right there, easily.

Add five more orders, for MHSC.
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