Bored Hunters Are Shooting Down Google's Fibers

[Ciuy]

stupid hunters.....give rifles to every idiot, and this is what you get. Only in America.

 

[LORD_ORION]

Google should buy a couple of UAVs instead of burying the lines. Then they could map the wilderness nicely too while sending the UAVs out whenever a line goes down.

 

[nforce4max]

Git R Done

 

[warezme]

should have buried them in the first place but they decided to go cheap like every other company and there you go. Keep shooting guys.

 

[Guest]

Why does this not surprise me? Having known a few folks over the years from these remote parts of Oregon, there is a culture of considering destruction is funny and if nobody is looking, you can get away with it. Different mindset out there.

 

[t0mmy1977]

[citation][nom]elpresidente2075[/nom]Now that's dedication.[/citation]
Comcast woudln't do that!

 

[demosthenes81]

ahhh republicans in the woods

 

[dark_lord69]

F*ckin redneck hicks

 

[gogogadgetliver]

Why did they put an above ground eyesore in place to begin with?

 

[f-14]

"These guys had to cross country ski for three days," Gill said.

guess they never heard of snowmobiles or thought about trucking some from the nearest dealer. maybe the linemen said "we'll just x-country ski in" and looked at each other and their eyes gleamed ** we've got snowmobiles at the cabin 3 day bender!**

as for hunting, i don't get bored, i bring a book.
my dad worked for a company that was part of power line construction, alot of those people whose lands those power communications lines/towers went on or crossed frequently expressed their displeasure about the situation every chance they got, even if it meant shooting at the utility workers.
oh and the best way to pay these morons back if you see them shooting the wires or insulators (their favorite past times if no signs are around) is to tell them when the power/telecommunications company has to come out and shut down the line to fix it, they're giving credit to those hunters by name/picture when 30k-1m people find out they have no power/phone/internet for a few hours. i know a few texas hunters [no it was not dick cheney :*( ]that didn't like seeing their names mentioned in the local news for why there was going to be a 6 hour blackout the following day!

 

[sviola]

Give the fibers the mean to defend themselves...Have them shoot back at their predators (Oregon hunters)...

 

[Repelsteeltje]

[citation][nom]Renegade_Warrior[/nom]Setup shielded high resolution cameras along with say 200 decibel alarms. [...][/citation]

First I was thinking "damn idiots", but your plan makes it sound awfully interesting... Real targets with alarms and cops trying to chase you through field and forest? Oh my! Boredom just changed into challenge!

 

[Yoder54]

I would question whether or not it is truly malicious. Maybe a bird flies by, they shoot, and "oops...hit the phone line."

I know many years ago I was cutting my winter fire wood and felled a tree...I did not calculate the right height of the tree and took down the phone lines. My old man was the phone repairman for the area and said that a couple hundred were without phones. Of course, it was on a Sunday and he was called out to do the repair. It was only about ten years after the event that I told him about my "mistake," and an honest one it was.

 

[freiheitner]

How about declare open season on hunters?

 

[thee_prisoner]

A little update:

Upon further review, Google says it didn't happen just that way.

The Dalles Chronicle is skeptical of the claim, according to Informationweek, which reports that Google now says hunters aren't a problem.
...according to a Google spokesperson, the company is aware of a single incident involving a hunter and cables at one of its many data centers around the world. What Gill was trying to convey at the conference was the risk that any exposed cable faces from a variety of threats. He wasn't attempting to describe The Dalles as a war zone.
"We use a variety of technologies to interconnect our datacenters, including above-ground, below-ground, and undersea fiber optic cables," a Google spokesperson said in an e-mailed statement. "Each are subject to different failure modes, and because of our large network volume we regularly see events which are, on an absolute scale, still quite rare -- including hunting, flooding, fire, road construction and even once a cow funeral. To ensure that these events don't impact our users and our operations, we have redundant connectivity with multiple diverse fiber paths to all of our important locations."

 

[toallthehaters]

Wonder how much money was lost in productivity? People don't think about the bigger picture. Especially after drinking natty ice all day

 

[rantoc]

[citation][nom]__-_-_-__[/nom]american civism.[/citation]

Guns dont kill fibres, americans with guns do! =P

 

[victomofreality]

Seriously? this is why there should be an IQ test to own a gun!

 

[tommysch]

[citation][nom]freiheitner[/nom]How about declare open season on hunters?[/citation]

Do that and see how it works out for you!

 

[bear_jesus]

to me the most logical reason seams that birds would be perched on top of them making for easy targets... has no one else thought of this?