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Re: Internet 1, Backhoe 0

  • From: Dan Foster
  • Date: Fri Oct 09 10:17:36 1998

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