Bored Hunters Are Shooting Down Google's Fibers

[JMcEntegart]

Google has had to switch from aerially deployed fiber to underground fiber for its Oregon data center after hunters decided to use the fiber insulators as target practice.

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[jhansonxi]

I wonder if any of Google's competitors are behind these incidents.

 

[Graham_71]

lol hasn't google caught these people on google maps yet !!

 

[elpresidente2075]

These guys had to cross country ski for three days,

Now that's dedication.

 

[eklipz330]

yeah... people can be jerks.

 

[briandr]

If the idiots are shooting down the fiber then dont fix it. Run the fiber where people will appreciate it. I am stuck with TWC as the only highspeed provider where i am and would be the first one inline for some fiber internet.

 

[cloudberry]

And Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck were able to live in peace after tricking Elmer Fudd into thinking it was fiber season.

 

[elel]

Well, I guess we now have harden internet in case a war ever breaks out.

 

[burnley14]

What a bunch of morons. Why pick something expensive to waste your ammo on? Shoot a dead tree or an empty soda can for goodness sake.

 

[Shadow703793]

[citation][nom]briandr[/nom]If the idiots are shooting down the fiber then dont fix it. Run the fiber where people will appreciate it. I am stuck with TWC as the only highspeed provider where i am and would be the first one inline for some fiber internet.[/citation]
They are used by Google's data centers. They are not available for use by you.

 

[scook9]

That just shows how awesome google is in every way....repair men on cross country skis.....you would think this was a james bond movie lol

 

[Guest]

Setup shielded high resolution cameras along with say 200 decibel alarms.

Anytime someone shoots and hits the fiber, cameras or even the power lines, the sequence of video footage for the area in question would be flagged from the time of the incident to at least up to say a half hour worth of video before the incident occurred. If the cameras were not damaged, then an additional half hour of video would be flagged after the incident.

At the same time, the alarm in the immediate vicinity could be set off for say about 5 to 10 minutes.

Something like this would scare the crap out of the idiots shooting at utility lines. (Fiber, Power, etc.) Plus the video footage would give law enforcement a chance to identify and catch such idiots.

The 200db alarms would mostly serve to discourage idiots from doing this in the first place cause after the first couple of times, peer pressure would prevent them from being so stupid.

 

[Guest]

Well, a man can't live on game alone. He's gotta have fiber, too!

 

[XZaapryca]

[citation][nom]burnley14[/nom]What a bunch of morons. Why pick something expensive to waste your ammo on? Shoot a dead tree or an empty soda can for goodness sake.[/citation]

Have you seen The Dalles, OR? It's on the edge of OR's high desert and there ain't much there. You could drop a nuke on the place and other than the crate, no one could tell the difference. But yeah, definitely a bunch of morons. Been through there many times.

 

[bv90andy]

whay can I say? Funny

 

[Minus_i7]

The reclusive technophobic conspiracy theorists have risen. Hear the thunder of their ride to dawn.

 

[thechief73]

Even though destroying property like this is wrong, the whole story still put a smile on my face

Another note, sounds like those repair men have the best job! Imagine the stories you could hear from a Google line repairman.

 

[rhino13]

Man people just gotta be jerks to everybody else. Why?

 

[Guest]

I had a Buddy as a teen in the 70's that went out shooting with a cousin. Just random targets. In the middle of the woods they found an old phone line low to the ground, about head height. They attached targets to this and shot off a bunch of rounds,(22cal).

A couple days later the Feds showed up...a few grand and a juvenile conviction later they learned it was the main trunk line from Worcester to Springfield Mass.

 

[oxxfatelostxxo]

Setup shielded high resolution cameras along with say 200 decibel alarms.

a gun does not put out 200db, loudest sound in air is like 194db, a gun being around 150db.

FYI =)