Vandalism in Arizona Shut Down Internet, Cellphone, Telephone Service Across State

Free Beacon ^ | February 27, 2015 | Adam Kredo

[MeshugeMikey]

Cellphone, Internet, and telephone services across half of Arizona went dark on Wednesday after vandals sliced a sensitive fiber optic cable, according to those familiar with the situation. The incident is raising concerns about the safety of U.S. infrastructure.

[DocRock]

From my homepage...

[Noumenon]

I like that. Consider it stolen. :)

[SgtHooper]

Yup. But that’s the way the reasoning goes by some on this site. Whoever started it for whatever the good reasons at the time, will be blamed for it now matter how sodomized it becomes by those who come after.

[DocRock]

No problem but go to my homepage and click the image for the full sized image. (Too large for a thread post) I made these for 5 x 5 inch stickers for my friends in my local club.

FReegards,
DocRock

[uncitizen]

I was being sarcastic in saying that it was just vandalism. Hell, it was practically a prank.

[tophat9000]

Im not trying to be conspiratorial... but I am an Network Engineer.. worked telcom and data path issues for years.. went your doing DR disaster recovery planing you look at things like the physical path for your traffic...

You have to plan be sure your redundant circuits are not on the same physical path you have to guarantee that you're going on to diverse paths so one issue or cut doesn't bring you down or isolate a site....you look for strategic failure points ...you just think that way

This cut .. its location and effort put into making it...just bug me... sets of some red flags ... and strikes me as a little odd

[uncitizen]

Don’t worry about sounding conspiratorial. What do you think is going on here? I assumed terrorism related, like a test run. But are you thinking inside job?

[tophat9000]

No more like anarchists geeks hacker OWS types .. a major data backbone pipe on the day of the FCC vote?... punk hackers want to be’s trying to send a message to the evil ISPs that they can mess with them

[Blue Collar Christian]

That this one “slice” took out so much communications is pathetic. All the eggs in one basket mentality. Here in Flagstaff, we merchants couldn’t process bank cards, had no internet or land lines for most of the day. The banks couldn’t function either.

[MeshugeMikey]

planning, planning planning