Posted on 06/15/2025 7:09:29 PM PDT by BenLurkin
An outage that affected customers across the Los Angeles, Van Nuys and surrounding areas on Sunday morning was allegedly caused by what Spectrum described as a “criminal act of vandalism,” and the company is now offering a reward for help finding the person responsible.
“Early this morning our fiber optic lines were intentionally cut in Los Angeles due to vandalism,” the internet and cable provider shared in a statement. Spectrum did not immediately specify how many customers were affected by the fiber cuts, but said that the temporary outage affected “some residents and businesses.”
According to the company, “criminal acts of network vandalism” have become increasingly common within the entire telecommunications industry, mostly because of the price increase for precious metals.
Spectrum added that it’s offering a reward of up to $25,000 to eligible individuals who provide credible information that directly leads to the arrest of anyone responsible for vandalizing or stealing network infrastructure.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
An act like that rather indicates there are people involved who are more than just the street variety protester/trouble maker. They are dedicated criminals trying to cause more widespread problems. They should be dealt with very severely. Maybe long jail terms after a good beating, not to the point of possible death of course. Just giving them a jail sentence doesn’t make enough of an impact on them. In fact it may not even make any impact other than to to get them off the streets & temporarily out of circulation.
It is also a way to disable alarm systems.
No kings. No cable.
This isn’t vandalism.
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Copper Rats AKA Ratas de cobre
Interference with soaps on TV is a serious federal offense. Leavenworth following conviction.
Acts of Love, it’s a beautiful thing.
So THAT’S why my computer and TV went out this morning.
“… our fiber optic lines were intentionally cut …”
Probably not copper thieves unless a copper line was running in the same trench.
Terrorists or Verizon guy. Maybe Musk!
IIRC-—IT IS A COMPLETE BITCH TO “ALIGN & REPAIR FIBER OPTIC CABLES
“IIRC-—IT IS A COMPLETE BITCH TO “ALIGN & REPAIR FIBER OPTIC CABLES.”
It’s a time consuming and expensive process. I’ve done it a time or two.
L
They cut off the TV? They’re all gonna die.
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