[techtalk] OT: This takes the cake

[Erin Clarke]

I feel compelled to contribute anecdotally..

On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 11:48:02AM -0400, Kath wrote:
> They are putting new windows in the area where the T1 line 
> enters our school building.  They UNHOOKED the T1 line and 
> left it dangling from a nearby telephone pole.  Actually I 
> surely hope it was unhooked and not cut.  These 
> construction workers have cut the fiber optic runs inside 
> the building prior to this over the summer.  Oi vey :\

Sometime in July 1999, we lost the T1 (at my
last place of employ) because someone with an
auger did this behind the building:

http://www.net/~eclarke/bellhell.jpg

...realized what they'd done, *buried* it and
didn't report it. It took hours to locate and 
even more hours to repair (which is what the 
photo is really of - the Bell Repair Tech 
working on the 2 mangled trunks of lines)...

The worst was that it occured within a 2-week
time period that also included a transformer
explosion (worker being reckless with a fork
lift, apparently) at a major downtown CO (all
lines in a big chunk of downtown Toronto were
unavailable all day) and a condo construction
site cutting a smaller line, which only 
affected some lines in the building where I 
worked at the time, including my previous 
employer's T1...

Mercury was retrograde, too!

Erin  8)