1KM long fiberoptic cable has been randomly dragged through a Swedish village - Polidicks

[IMG]http://gfx.aftonbladet-cdn.se/image/21296101/825/normal/924800e6dd564/kab.jpg[/IMG] [quote] People living in the village of Ellös woke up on the sunday morning confused as to why a strange cable had been dragged across roads, sidewalks, and through people's backyards. "A couple of people found the rolled up cable and got a bit over-excited. They grabbed one end of the cable and ran until they got bored, we class it as sabotage. The personnel of a local retirement home reported that some people were fiddling with the cable at 0.45 AM early sunday morning." Bo Hansson at the emergency services in Orust says. The cable company arrived to the scene at 10AM in the sunday morning. "They're going to reel the cable in again" Hansson says. [/quote] Source: [url]http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article21296078.ab[/url]

[QUOTE=Wormy;48529249]The cable is probably broken now, that will be expensive to replace.[/QUOTE] Considering they've probably been twisting and bending it and that it's also been run over by cars, it's completely fucked

Slow day huh

They will probably salvage what they can from it.

[QUOTE=Sprelle;48529311]They will probably salvage what they can from it.[/QUOTE] Bulk buying optic, industry-grade fiber is about 80-100 USD per kilometer. It's not worth it trying to salvage it and risk the unreliability. It might even cost more in man hours than it would to just scrap the whole length of cable and buy a new spool.

[QUOTE=proch;48529284]Slow day huh[/QUOTE] An expensive fiberoptic cable suddenly showing up just strewn about everywhere across a town seems like a good candidate for news to me.

fiberoptics really can't be allowed to bend, ouch. How'd it start? The article is in swedish and the tiny snippet doesn't really say, I'd imagine it was like a dog or some other animal that messed with construction or something.

[QUOTE=Snickerdoodle;48529513]An expensive fiberoptic cable suddenly showing up just strewn about everywhere across a town seems like a good candidate for news to me.[/QUOTE] Not really that expensive.

[QUOTE=thelurker1234;48529551]fiberoptics really can't be allowed to bend, ouch. How'd it start? The article is in swedish and the tiny snippet doesn't really say, I'd imagine it was like a dog or some other animal that messed with construction or something.[/QUOTE] [quote=OP]"A couple of people found the rolled up cable and got a bit over-excited. They grabbed one end of the cable and ran until they got bored, we class it as sabotage. The personnel of a local retirement home reported that some people were fiddling with the cable at 0.45 AM early sunday morning." Bo Hansson at the emergency services in Orust says.[/quote] ? [editline]24th August 2015[/editline] My guess is it was coiled up somewhere for deployment, and some stupid people got an idea. [editline]24th August 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=Krahn;48529339]Bulk buying optic, industry-grade fiber is about 80-100 USD per kilometer. It's not worth it trying to salvage it and risk the unreliability. It might even cost more in man hours than it would to just scrap the whole length of cable and buy a new spool.[/QUOTE] Pretty much, kits and personnel for splicing fiber ain't cheap.

[QUOTE=Snickerdoodle;48529513]An expensive fiberoptic cable suddenly showing up just strewn about everywhere across a town seems like a good candidate for news to me.[/QUOTE] There should be a news site just for expensive stuff breaking, news coming in literally every second I bet my ass someone somewhere just broke his Ferrari

[QUOTE=proch;48529595]There should be a news site just for expensive stuff breaking, news coming in literally every second I bet my ass someone somewhere just broke his Ferrari[/QUOTE] It's not odd at all to you that this cable was just found strewn across a town? I'm not really talking about breaking the cable.

[QUOTE=Snickerdoodle;48529600]It's not odd at all to you that this cable was just found strewn across a town?[/QUOTE] Vandalism isn't really all that new :v: I mean if it at least was that one time where someone painted the war monuments like the avengers it'd be slightly interesting, but that's literally a somewhat expensive cable laying around

[QUOTE=proch;48529604]Vandalism isn't really all that new :v: I mean if it at least was that one time where someone painted the war monuments like the avengers it'd be slightly interesting, but that's literally a somewhat expensive cable laying around[/QUOTE] I remember that. Gave me a good chuckle. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/pQWvPgt.jpg[/IMG] [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_to_the_Soviet_Army,_Sofia#Graffiti"]Seems like it's been the target of vandalism quite a few times though.[/URL] [IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/PSA_21_08_2013.JPG/592px-PSA_21_08_2013.JPG[/IMG] [IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Sofia-Monument-to-Soviet-Army--Glory-to-Ukraine-20140224-1.jpg/622px-Sofia-Monument-to-Soviet-Army--Glory-to-Ukraine-20140224-1.jpg[/IMG]

[QUOTE]"They're going to reel the cable in again"[/QUOTE] Oh phew, i got worried there for second. It's all gonna be okay again, guys.

[quote]Bo Hansson[/quote] [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA3jiZ5GqCA[/media] ???

[QUOTE=Levelog;48529564] My guess is it was coiled up somewhere for deployment, and some stupid people got an idea. [/QUOTE] Ye sorry, I forgot to translate that part, this is correct