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Some time ago Scott Yoneyama said: > You're right. I forgot about the decomissioned pipelines. Although, > you'd be surprised how stupid some of these morons with backhoes are! I > remember a major MCI cut along their west coast route a few years ago > that took out the entire northwest for 8 hours. The guy was 600 yards > away from where his permit allowed him to dig. He stopped when he cut > the fiber and shut his hoe down. When they got out there, they found > that he was digging right next to train tracks, was inches from cutting > a high voltage power line that surely would have killed him, and was > also fairly close to a gas line. Is there any compensation to MCI in a situation like this? I would think that multi million dollar fines would make people think a little before they start digging. --Eric
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