The year was 1968. I was working the 4 to 12 at the NY #2 office of AT&T, which was located at 32 Avenue of the Americas, just south of Canal St. near NY's China Town. It was just about 11:30 PM when I received a system alarm on a NY to Kingston NY "ON" Carrier Ssytem. Believe me, they don't make those anymore. Anyway, the clanger alarm got my attention, so I began investigating its source. To make a long story short, the system was knocked down on purposes by a NY Telephone transmissionman who was stuck atop a pole is sub-freezing weather, with a large, persistent bear at its base. He'd been there for about an hour, he said, and wouldn't leave. So I alerted the local town constable who came to the rescue ... ... at 'round 2AM. The bear stayed there for the entire time, and the guy on the pole was near frost-bitten when all was said and done. Anyway, I got a couple hours of overtime out of the deal, if memory serves me right. ========= On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 12:07 , 'Marshall Eubanks' <tme@multicasttech.com> sent:

Cats and Spiders, Ha !

I was involved with the construction of a radio telescope in the Spitzbergen settlement of Ny Alesund, Norway (78 degrees 56 minutes north).

http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/vlbi/images/telbig/nyales.gif

Staff were assigned Colt 45 revolvers because the area was frequented by Polar Bears - up to 400 kilos, able to run faster than a person, and (so I was told) with an annoying habit of appearing between you and the front door if you went to take out the garbage. Just about every year they would get a trekker or two.

Reliance Infocomm is installing 80,000 km of fiber in India. I wonder if they have any tiger stories.

Marshall

On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 21:44:06 -0700 "Aaron Thomas" athomas@deltacable.com> wrote:

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Since we are on the topic of animal encounters related to being 'on the job'...

I once worked as a cable installer for the same company I work for today. I was running a new cable outlet for a customer in an older farm house in a rural part of our serving area. This big old farm house had a lot of cats at one time or another, as I was about to find out. I entered the crawlspace, which was quite spacious as far as crawl spaces go, and the opening was large enough I didn't have to bring my flashlight out right away. As I ventured into the back of the house, I started feeling something crunchy, yet soft, as I crawled in... I reached to my belt for my flash light and had a look... I was smack dab in the middle of anywhere between 200 - 400 bird skeletons and feathers.

I had a small problem with crawlspaces before then due to a large spider infestation... But guess what I think of them now. Can't get me inside them unless they are brand new.

My 2 cents

Aaron

-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [owner-nanog@merit.edu','','','')">owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Eric Brunner-Williams Sent: July 9, 2004 6:29 AM To: Deepak Jain Cc: Richard Welty; nanog list; brunner@nic-naa.net Subject: Re: OT: Re: Critters

My first daughter's pet rabbit re-wired my apartment network, power and data.

At SRI in Menlo Park, the squirrels were always keen for that tasty grey cable whenever it was run where they could get it.

I wish I had a moose-and-cable story. Sorry.