Once upon a time, Chris Hartley <hartl...@gmail.com> said: > At OARNet, the leading cause of aerial fiber outages was squirrels, > followed closely by weather, distantly by angry farmers and once in Akron, > random gunfire... At OSU, the leading cause of fiber outages is squirrels, > followed distantly by fire.
What about the random moron trying to steal copper wire from the pole (and getting glass instead)? > Don't squirrels go back to their stash? Could a squirrel get through that > hole, or were those just a lost stash? Eh, if the number of small oak trees I find sprouting in my flower beds is any indication, the squirrels' brains are smaller than the acorns and they forget where they left them. -- Chris Adams <c...@cmadams.net>