[ale] OT: a question on cable connections

[Jim Kinney]

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 6:02 AM, Paul Cartwright<ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:
> On Tue June 2 2009, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> Of course to actually _do_ something like this will land the dumb
>> schmuck in a world of really bad trouble so while it feels good to
>> joke about it, actually doing is a really bad bad bad idea. The phone
>> co has lots of really good lawyers that would love to eat the idiot
>> who actually did something this stupid and violent.
>
> you can always say lightening did it.. be sure to try this AFTER a storm..
> and I worked for Bell, and worked in an old CO ( Central office) where they
> regularly applied 600 volts to lines that were in trouble, to see if they
> could CLEAR the problem.. Sometimes this was a spider web, squirrels,
> wasps....

That would explain the number of squirrel carcases I have found in
attics still teeth clenched around the phone line. 600V HURTS!
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