Posted on 04/09/2009 11:21:13 AM PDT by GSWarrior
Vandals cut an AT&T fiber-optic cable in San Jose early this morning, knocking out landline and cellular phone service and the Internet to thousands of residential customers and businesses in Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties, authorities said.
Police used yellow tape to cordon off the area, which is near railroad tracks, as investigators and phone company workers descended into an underground vault where the cable is located.
"We're treating this as a crime scene," Lopez said.
The outage is affecting 911 service, meaning people who have an emergency will have to get to a police or fire station or hospital on their own if they need help.
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Bat Rastards!
We live just a bit North of there.
I hope they have the Verizon network looking for them
I just heard on local radio that they’ve found a manhole cover moved and inside is one of the cables, cut.
I’m leaning more and more toward an inside job.......AT&T workers are thinking of going on strike.......
Just what we don’t need..
Caleeforniyaaa already has too many strikes against it as is.
between the voters and the legislature and a Gub on a green mission
ouch.
BIG ouch.
I’m leaning more and more toward an inside job.......AT&T workers are thinking of going on strike.......
It sounds like the good old boys at the local had to many beers and went out doing some contract negotiations of their own. So much for "Benevolent Brotherhood!"
This is a great opportunity and example to illustrate the proposed "Card check" legislation to eliminate the workers' right to secret-ballot voting for union representation would only protect and propagate this criminal thuggery into all industry nationwide.
I keep telling myself, intentionally harming the telecommunications infrastructure is a federal crime. The is why the FBI has jurisdiction. This joker is going to rot in the clink.
A lot of the system is still down after more than 24 hours.
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