On 4/13/09, Lamar Owen <lo...@pari.edu> wrote: > On Monday 13 April 2009 11:06:55 Roy wrote: > > A friend mentioned at dinner yesterday that he spotted several AT&T > > trucks next to manholes in the area affected by the fiber cut. They > > were busy welding the manhole covers to their rims. > > :-) > > Sounds like a cutting torch or portable chop saw will become standard service > equipment for them after all.
*heh* Just in case the next vandals slice the fiber, then weld the manhole covers shut on the way out? I guess the only thing worse would be for the vandals to have a truckload of quick-drying cement with them; slice the fiber, dump quick-drying cement into the vault, pop the lid on, tamp thermite in the gap around the rim and flash weld it shut. Talk about creating an extended outage scenario. ^_^;
