And then there was the time an electrician accidentally cut the coax and decided to splice it with black electrical tape...
He, he, we had all sorts of issues, ethernet was not a very well known technology yet. We had a radio antenna on the roof and when the guys doing the install saw a coax they assumed it was their 75 ohm drop to the radio equipment, never took the time to look at the labels on the cable, what a mess. At the Argentinean Embassy in WDC they had a pet dog that had the bad habit to chew on the thin ethernet cables, we didn't have any TDR tools so we had to befriend the damn dog to be able to follow him to find where the heck the cable was exposed and chewed. No doubt technology has evolved, for some people sshing from an iPod touch may feel like "yaaa another app" for me it feels amazing !! Cheers Jorge