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RE: $50,000 reward for Verizon cable cutter

  • From: Church, Chuck
  • Date: Sat Jan 15 09:55:48 2005

 Maybe a current Verizon employee looking for extra OT...


Chuck Church
Lead Design Engineer
CCIE #8776, MCNE, MCSE
Netco Government Services - Design & Implementation Team
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Greenville, SC 29609
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Joshua Brady
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 10:32 PM
To: Hannigan, Martin
Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
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
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> Disgruntled customers don't know how to cut X hundred pair cables.
> 
> ---
> Martin Hannigan
> [email protected]
> Verisign, Inc.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> 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/veri
zon_
> 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.
> 
> --
> William Allen Simpson
>     Key fingerprint =  17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26  DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C
32
> 


-- 
Joshua Brady