Elderly Woman Pokes Cable, Cuts Internet Access in Three Countries
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In Soviet Russia ... there IS no publicly accessible internet, as it would have nothing to do with such decadent capitalist luxuries or tools for civil freedom, and, oh it broke up before half the posters on this forum were even born.
Sorry for being a killjoy, but, come on. This shit is like something happening in Dresden or Leipzig and you break out the East Germany quips (or bring up the Yugo if there's an event in Sarajevo). There's a statute of limitations on how out of date your comedy routines can be. They're all seperate countries now. Russia INVADED part of Georgia last year FFS. If you saw Armenia on the eurovision a couple years back you'd swear they were more arabic than anything else.
Besides, Yakov Smirnoff, bloody hell, you gonna start with All Your Base Are Belong To Old Georgian Lady next? This cable doesn't have beautiful plumage, it's bleedin' demised?
PS this sort of thing is depressingly common anyway ... cables are rarely well protected, even to the level of just being put inside waterproof, heavyweight plastic or ceramic pipes or their routes being proplerly documented.
There's building work going on my ofice site at the moment, and the number of times we alone have lost net or phone connection because of a digger or workman's spade going somewhere that was supposedly "clear" but actually contained fibre is totally beyond a joke (this is in a fairly civilised bit of the UK no less). We're just waiting until someone gets fried by a 415 or 1000v power cable.
Sorry for being a killjoy, but, come on. This shit is like something happening in Dresden or Leipzig and you break out the East Germany quips (or bring up the Yugo if there's an event in Sarajevo). There's a statute of limitations on how out of date your comedy routines can be. They're all seperate countries now. Russia INVADED part of Georgia last year FFS. If you saw Armenia on the eurovision a couple years back you'd swear they were more arabic than anything else.
Besides, Yakov Smirnoff, bloody hell, you gonna start with All Your Base Are Belong To Old Georgian Lady next? This cable doesn't have beautiful plumage, it's bleedin' demised?
PS this sort of thing is depressingly common anyway ... cables are rarely well protected, even to the level of just being put inside waterproof, heavyweight plastic or ceramic pipes or their routes being proplerly documented.
There's building work going on my ofice site at the moment, and the number of times we alone have lost net or phone connection because of a digger or workman's spade going somewhere that was supposedly "clear" but actually contained fibre is totally beyond a joke (this is in a fairly civilised bit of the UK no less). We're just waiting until someone gets fried by a 415 or 1000v power cable.
I think that it's quite the faulty system to have ONE wire which can be cut by a spade to supply the internet to such a large scale of people. I'm surprised that they had it running for as long as they did with all those landslides that were mentioned. She probably did them a favor by showing them the fragility of their system.
Bet she was acctually using a diamond Spade....
Problably creepers blew on the cable before weakening its protection?
Problably creepers blew on the cable before weakening its protection?
None of them are goodicame said:
It would be bullshit to give the poor woman 3 years in prison though. Come on, you kind of think the authorities aren't stupid enough to make a fiber optics cable that millions of people depend on breakable by an old woman with a shovel...
that would be so awesome, and like hellportals in minecraft you would have to fight memes that come out from time to time.Jaranja said:I meant more like... Internet cables. So we can have internet inside Minecraft.GiantRedButton said:There already areJaranja said:
GEORGIA! Not Russia! Get your facts straight goddammit!V8 Ninja said:
If I were one of the people in the affected countries I would be all like:
after reading this.
at 75 to be sent to prison for 3 years is a god send me thinks. especially for someone whom has resorted to digging for and selling old copper.
and yes "heavily protected" my ass lol
and yes "heavily protected" my ass lol
The most awesome granny ever. The fact that 75 year old people have to DIG for whatever to be able to buy food makes me a very sad panda