AT&T and Sprint Fiber Lines Severed
Last night around 1:30 AM PST in San Jose, four fiber optic lines belonging to AT&T were severed by vandals, knocking off landlines, cellular and net connections for thousands of residents in the San Jose, California area.
Two hours later, two more lines, one belonging to AT&T and one belonging to Sprint were also severed around the San Carlos area. Police are looking into the matter and say that they are treating this as a crime.
Because of the close proximity in time of when the cutting occurred, AT&T and Sprint believe that this was planned out in advanced. Some are now saying that this act could have been carried out by angry employees or ex-employees of the two companies.
Angry at their parent companies our not, the perpetrators weren't really thinking at all, and acted in a completely selfish manner. Because the fiber lines carried both landline and cellular services, the act prevented people from reaching 911. If there happened to be a medical or criminal emergency during the outage period, residences in the area would have been stranded

Isnt this the case in almost all criminal acts?
They should be convicted as murderers when caught.
Isnt this the case in almost all criminal acts?
It takes skill and effort to create something useful and appreciated. Any moron can break things by tripping over their own two feet. People who celebrate their ability to wreck other people's/company's things I have no patience for.
"WELL I CAN'T MAKE ANY CALLS BUT AT LEAST I GOT MY NONSPECIFIC REVENGE"
In most Mansalughter cases, it is considered a criminal act because of the poor judgement the criminal was practicing. Such as being totally reckless and spinning a car out around a corner only to nail little timmy in the face with the back end of your car.
Sure, no gain, but intentional recklesness is most deff very selfish.
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Are you serious?
My sons school had to close because 911 is down so i had to leave work early and pick him up, you couldnt use Fleet cards at the Gas station, no ATM's worked, Banks wouldnt let people in to get cash because there security systems couldnt send transmissions out.
However I had internet and phone at home because I use Comcast. Finally they have earned all that money i pay them every month.
Ohh and about the whole workers thing that was a bit of a understatement in that article. Its all the evidance is beginning to point to a orginized Union action. The Unions have been fighting with the respective companies the past few weeks to avoid massive layoffs because of the economic issues.
However Im pretty sure if it turns out it was a Union action; then this most certainly will not help their case.
By the way Im pretty sure people have more options then shutting off comms to 3 counties. I pretty sure its not the companies that have suffered in this.
It could easily be disgruntled ex-employees, but that could also just be what we're supposed to think.