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From: gaarder@theory.tn.cornell.edu (Steve Gaarder)
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Subject: Cable Breaks
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Date: 24 Oct 90 23:25:58 GMT
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Some 15 or so years ago, a local farmer cut the main cable that
carried toll calls out of Ithaca, N.Y.  He was digging fence post
holes, and when he hit the cable, he figured he'd found an old,
abandoned cable, and proceeded to dig two more holes into the cable.
A NY Tel spokesman was quoted as saying, "we really wish he'd stopped
after the first one."

The following is a story I heard once, and may be just another legend:
A craft was splicing a cable outside in bad weather, and decided to do
the job in comfort by running each end through opposite windows of his
van, and sitting inside.  It was, "they" say, cheaper to cut open the
roof of the van than cut and re-splice the cable.


Steve Gaarder, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
gaarder@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu