On 4/13/09, Lamar Owen <lowen@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. ^_^;