rirving@onecall.net asked: | | Someone *Kill* a Back-Hoe for me..... I was watching the local (Philly) news last night, and saw a story that needed to be shared. [Atlantic County, NJ] While attempting to wreck havoc on the world's telecommunications infrastructure, a backhoe mistook a gas main as a fiber optic cable. The evil yellow beast was destroyed in the resulting fireball. --jeff
On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Jeff Weisberg wrote:
[Atlantic County, NJ] While attempting to wreck havoc on the world's telecommunications infrastructure, a backhoe mistook a gas main as a fiber optic cable. The evil yellow beast was destroyed in the resulting fireball.
While this is funny, I really hope the backhoe driver was OK. -Chris ========================================================== Chris Candreva -- chris@westnet.com -- (914) 967-7816 WestNet Internet Services of Westchester http://www.westnet.com/
Unnamed Administration sources reported that Christopher X. Candreva said:
[Atlantic County, NJ] While attempting to wreck havoc on the world's telecommunications infrastructure, a backhoe mistook a gas main as a fiber optic cable. The evil yellow beast was destroyed in the resulting fireball.
While this is funny, I really hope the backhoe driver was OK.
Having worked in the pipeline business, I can say he's likely dead. When you break a Schedule 3000 pipe w/1000psi natural gas, you don't have long to worry about things. You get nice 50+ foot tall flares, usually hot enough to melt steel on the hoe. While fiber hits discussed here are very disruptive, they seldom kill folks. That's (alas) far from true in general. Running into things underground is a major problem, and it's growing, the more we bury. Newark Airport was shut down when a contractor's pile-driver shorted the main power feeds a few years ago. In Venezuela, a GTE-related dig severed a gas line and wiped up a small village. If you are ever contracting for a dig, be sure the contractor knows WTF they are doing, AND ask your attorneys early-on about this. Let's be careful out there. -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
Hot Diggety! On a bright and sunny day, Jeff Weisberg allegedly said...
[Atlantic County, NJ] While attempting to wreck havoc on the world's telecommunications infrastructure, a backhoe mistook a gas main as a fiber optic cable. The evil yellow beast was destroyed in the resulting fireball.
Now *that*'s poetic justice! Too bad we don't have video of this happy event :-) Now just if we could get those t-shirts with backhoes-targeted-in-gun-sights, then that'd be 20-30 orders right there, easily. -Dan
At 09:55 AM 10/9/98 -0400, Dan Foster wrote:
Hot Diggety! On a bright and sunny day, Jeff Weisberg allegedly said...
[Atlantic County, NJ] While attempting to wreck havoc on the world's telecommunications infrastructure, a backhoe mistook a gas main as a fiber optic cable. The evil yellow beast was destroyed in the resulting fireball.
Now *that*'s poetic justice! Too bad we don't have video of this happy event :-)
Now just if we could get those t-shirts with backhoes-targeted-in-gun-sights, then that'd be 20-30 orders right there, easily.
Add five more orders, for MHSC. ___________________________________________________ Roeland M.J. Meyer, ISOC (InterNIC RM993) e-mail: <mailto:rmeyer@mhsc.com>rmeyer@mhsc.com Internet phone: hawk.mhsc.com Personal web pages: <http://www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer>www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer Company web-site: <http://www.mhsc.com/>www.mhsc.com/ ___________________________________________ I bet the human brain is a kludge. -- Marvin Minsky
We'd definately take a few dozen. On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
At 09:55 AM 10/9/98 -0400, Dan Foster wrote:
Hot Diggety! On a bright and sunny day, Jeff Weisberg allegedly said...
[Atlantic County, NJ] While attempting to wreck havoc on the world's telecommunications infrastructure, a backhoe mistook a gas main as a fiber optic cable. The evil yellow beast was destroyed in the resulting fireball.
Now *that*'s poetic justice! Too bad we don't have video of this happy event :-)
Now just if we could get those t-shirts with backhoes-targeted-in-gun-sights, then that'd be 20-30 orders right there, easily.
Add five more orders, for MHSC. ___________________________________________________ Roeland M.J. Meyer, ISOC (InterNIC RM993) e-mail: <mailto:rmeyer@mhsc.com>rmeyer@mhsc.com Internet phone: hawk.mhsc.com Personal web pages: <http://www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer>www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer Company web-site: <http://www.mhsc.com/>www.mhsc.com/ ___________________________________________ I bet the human brain is a kludge. -- Marvin Minsky
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