Maybe a current Verizon employee looking for extra OT... Chuck Church Lead Design Engineer CCIE #8776, MCNE, MCSE Netco Government Services - Design & Implementation Team 1210 N. Parker Rd. Greenville, SC 29609 Home office: 864-335-9473 Cell: 703-819-3495 cchurch@netcogov.com PGP key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x4371A48D -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Joshua Brady Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 10:32 PM To: Hannigan, Martin Cc: wsimpson@greendragon.com; nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: $50,000 reward for Verizon cable cutter Your not giving customers enough credit, your a customer yourself arn't you? Do you know how to cut those cables? Would anyone else on the list who isn't a disgruntled verizon employee? On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 22:26:04 -0500, Hannigan, Martin <hannigan@verisign.com> wrote:

Disgruntled customers don't know how to cut X hundred pair cables.

--- Martin Hannigan hannigan@verisign.com Verisign, Inc.

-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu <owner-nanog@merit.edu> To: nanog@merit.edu <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Fri Jan 14 19:10:35 2005 Subject: Re: $50,000 reward for Verizon cable cutter

Sean Donelan wrote:

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Verizon is offering a $50,000 reward for information about several acts of cut cables in the last couple of months. At least three

lines

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were cut in the last week.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/01/13/veri zon_ seeking_information_about_cable_cutter/

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With a power saw? Goodness, that sounds noisy in the middle of the night. I'd have thought a low tech ax would do the job. :-)

Probably a disgruntled customer, with cable bundles that repair says were supposed to be replaced 12 years ago, but engineering says isn't in the budget (like my SBC/Ameritech neighborhood in Ann Arbor).

Sigh, not enough criminal instinct here.

-- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

-- Joshua Brady