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Re: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest

  • From: JC Dill
  • Date: Mon Nov 03 22:59:28 2003 
At 07:32 PM 11/3/2003, John Fraizer wrote:

On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Owen DeLong wrote:

> Maybe I'm missing something, but, if you have the bolt cutters, I don't
> see why you need the key to an adjacent lock or any of the locks.

Um, cutting a lock out gets it out of the mix but, you still have to have
the key to one of the other locks to complete the chain again.  Think
about it.
A cut lock can be replaced with a similar replacement lock and usually no one will be the wiser. Look at the locks here:

<http://www.qsl.net/kf4lhp/telweb/microwave/kiv70/padlocks.jpg>

The lock marked ATC is between 2 other locks (that's a hasp to its left, with rusty chain further to the left). It could be cut and replaced with a similar lock linking the other two locks, without opening either of the other two locks. On gates with many locks (I've seen chains of 6 or more), there is rarely any interest given to the locks that are not one's own responsibility.

jc

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