>I used to have a customer who were in the forestry
business. They had
a hundred miles or so of railroad down South that >went
from one of
their sawmills to places that had lots of trees, and ran
some telecom
>cables along them. Where they had bridges, the cables
would hang
>underneath the bridges. They had some cable problems
during the rainy
season, due to wetness, but they also ran into
>problems during hunting season with guys named Bubba
who'd shoot at
birds on their cables (presumably when they were
>taking a break from their day job of driving
backhoes...)
Speaking of Backhoes, there was a picture I had saved at one
point,
can't find it now, maybe someone else has it..
It shows a backhoe, half-fallen down into a hole, on fire,
huge tower of
flames coming up out of the hole. Sitting right next to the
hole (this
picture was pre-popularity of photoshop, so I assume it to
be legit) was
a big sign that said "Natural Gas Pipeline, do not
dig".
Anyone who has this picture, email me offline.
-donn
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