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Re: $50,000 reward for Verizon cable cutter


From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan () verisign com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 22:37:10 -0500



I know how to cut those cables from experience. A customer isn't showing up
with a battery powered Makita to do it. And they don't know where to cut to
do max damage. If they were cutting SLC splice boxes, sure. Not this. IMHO.
These cuts indicate knowledge. I may be wrong. @shrug@
 

-M

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Martin Hannigan
hannigan () verisign com
Verisign, Inc.


-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua Brady <somitho () gmail com>
To: Hannigan, Martin <hannigan () verisign com>
CC: wsimpson () greendragon com <wsimpson () greendragon com>; nanog () merit edu
<nanog () merit edu>
Sent: Fri Jan 14 19:31:30 2005
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.

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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:

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
were cut in the last week.


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



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.

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Joshua Brady


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