Elderly Woman Pokes Cable, Cuts Internet Access in Three Countries

[Danpascooch]

See this is why I think all such cables you be covered in a bright yellow and black coat with great big danger warnings, and a massive electric current running through them to kill any dipshit you touches them.

Yeah....the thing about running current through them is that they're kinda already carrying data. If you want to replace our internet signals with the equivalent of static, feel free.

 

[Adam Galli]

Words cannot express how happy this makes me...

 

[ScorpSt]

I wonder how many people were searching for porn when that happened xD

"I was only half way done! HALF WAY DONE!"

 

[Fade2Moo]

I wonder how many people were searching for porn when that happened xD

"I was only half way done! HALF WAY DONE!"

In Soviet Russia, porn fap to you!

 

[Formica Archonis]

And millions moaned at the griefer messing with their redstone circuits....

Back when I was a sysadmin there was a joke, hoary even then, that went something like this.
Q: What does a system administrator carry into the woods to make sure he doesn't get lost?
A: A length of fiber (optic cable) and a shovel. If he gets lost, he buries the cable and hitches a ride with the backhoe driver [http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/F/fiber-seeking-backhoe.html].
(I didn't say it was a GOOD joke.)

Seems like they can't afford the backhoes in the former USSR, though!

 

[harvz]

she's been listening to the new miracle of sound song

 

[Mr.Amakir]

In Soviet Russia...

Damit I got nuthin!

In Capitalist America, internet destroys you.

 

[farmerboy219]

3 years! oh come on it was an accident, she will be dead soon anyway

 

[Halceon]

In Soviet Russia...

Damit I got nuthin!

In Post-Soviet Armenia, Intenet turns YOU off.

 

[PrimoThePro]

SHE'S GRIEFING! But seriously... It was an accident.

 

[ionveau]

oh those georgians will they ever learn....

 

[Asuka Soryu]

I wonder how many people were searching for porn when that happened xD

"Oh, yeah! Oh, baby! You're a naughty girl and you li-- Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!"

 

[Wintermoot]

maybe they should have marked new cables
WARNING SENSITIVE FIBER OPTIC CABLE DO NOT BREAK!
she shouldn't go to jail,how could she tell the difference between a old copper cable and a fiber optics cable?

 

[Zay-el]

She forgot the law of not digging straight down.

 

[NLS]

Talk about 'data mining'
*snap*
There it is

Nailed it! (with a shovel)

 

[Meestor Pickle]

Poor old lady is probably going to get stoned by the local townsfolk.

Assuming the townsfolk have much in the way of internet access

 

[Deverfro]

Did she ever find that copper piping? thats the big issue here D:

 

[SirCannonFodder]

In America, the internet vexes old people.
In Soviet Russia, old people vex the internet!