When there’s no deer or quail or whatever it is hunters shoot up in The Dalles around, bored gunmen have been playing target practice with the insulators on Google’s electricity distribution poles. It’s so problematic Google’s moving their fibres underground.
The fibres that are continually being shot down connect with Google’s $US600 million data centre in The Dalles. It happens as soon as hunting season starts each November, so now a fed-up Google is building an underground path for it.
On one snowstormy occasion, Google repairmen couldn’t be transported to the area of a recent cut. Normally sent out by helicopter or Caterpillar tractor, three technicians had to cross country ski for three days to reach and then fix the damaged fibre. [IT News via Oregon Business]
Keith Drain
Wednesday, September 22, 2010 at 1:03 PMOh please,
Lets blame the hunters. You don’t need to be a hunting in the US to own a gun. Lets call these people Vandals the vast majority of firearm owners are responsible upstanding citizens please don’t throw us all in the same basket as we are not. Law Abiding Hunters are just that law abiding. Also this is the comments from one person, how do they know its hunters? I’d say it is irresponsible idiots not hunters. Shame on you Gizmodo for throwing an entire industry in the same basket as a few idiots. -1 Faith point.
Devz
Wednesday, September 22, 2010 at 1:22 PM“It happens as soon as hunting season starts each November” … dunno, but that might have a play in the context of the article.
josh
Wednesday, September 22, 2010 at 1:22 PM@ Keith – They are suggesting it is hunters because it starts happening in hunting season?? I am sure if it started happening during flower picking season they would blame it on the florists but im sorry, hunting season + gun fire + damage = fair assumption
Keith Drain
Wednesday, December 1, 2010 at 11:31 AMWhich hunting season?
Is it bird hunting season (Sept/Oct)?
Deer Hunting season Nov/Dec
Predator Season (either winter or all year around?)
How about turkey season? (US Spring)
As I said, even if they were hunting they are vandals as they aren’t doing the right thing.
Simon Reidy
Wednesday, September 22, 2010 at 2:23 PMF#%ing Americans and fu#%ing gun owners. It’s been a bad mix since the Bill of Rights was first signed.
Nathan
Wednesday, September 22, 2010 at 6:47 PMBahaha, Keith got rolled!
And I agree with Simon. Easy gun ownership is a bad idea, and America is stupid for allowing easy gun ownership under the premise of a “civil right”.
Of course, genuine hunters both here and in America could still obtain guns, and they should be able to (all legal checks in place etc). So stricter gun laws would probably not fix this particular problem.
Poor Google, all they want to do is take over the world…
Jones
Wednesday, September 22, 2010 at 6:57 PMIt’s Google season…
No, Duck season…
Google season…
Duck season…
Google season…BANG!!
Steve
Thursday, September 23, 2010 at 7:07 PMI doubt all of these were caused by Hunters, but I’m also certain a huge number are. It takes a special kind of ‘vandal’ to travel to the remote wilderness for a reason other than hunting to shoot some cable insulation for kicks.
That said, Dick Cheney jokes in 3, 2, 1…