Verizon Site Mischief Cuts Police Phone Service

[The Northerner]

LEMONT FURNACE, Pa. -- State police in Uniontown said a 29-hour loss of landline phone service was caused by an act of criminal mischief when someone went into locked underground Verizon vaults and shut off the power.

Trooper Timothy Kirsch said there was no forced entry at the sites on Main Street and on Route 119 in Lemont Furnace, near the Penn State Fayette campus. Police believe whoever shut off the power had keys.

Police are trying to determine if the incident, which began at about 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday, is related to an ongoing strike by Verizon landline workers.

The local state police barracks was without phone and computer service for 21 hours, police said. Calls had to be forwarded to dispatchers who worked out of another barracks several miles away.

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[villager]

1. once "everyone else" realizes they're the ones that keep the elites' machine humming along...

...fun and interesting things can happen.

No wonder those same elites want to demolish access to education here: They don't want "everyone else" figuring it out!

[obxhead]

2. Reminds me of a scene from Fight Club

we connect your calls....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWVxI6XZAuE

[villager]

3. Exactly

n/t

[notadmblnd]

4. With the atmosphere in regards to unions these days and Verison workers on strike-

Why didn't Verizon greed monsters have the for-site to secure their facilities? No, They are not stupid enough to not have fences and security cameras. Since Sep 11 2001 every major IT company has spent millions on security.

I suspect Verizon is responsible for the outage and is using the striking workers as their excuse to take another opportunity to give union workers a bad name. :shrug:

[lpbk2713]

5. Another plausible scenario ...

It could have been a scab intent on keeping himself employed for as long as possible. Or perhaps a
picketer gave him a hard time at a picket line and he wanted to get even. Who can say for sure? :shrug:

[Tesha]

7. Many of these sites are small and unattended.

They have a company-wide padlock keying so any technician can
get to them as quickly as possible to clear a fault.

This concept falls apart, of course, when your technicians become
'the enemy".

Tesha

[notadmblnd]

11. A simple padlock and an untracable key, in this day and age?

My employer knew every time I walked through a locked door at my place of employment and they didn't have a security camera. what I had was a photo ID with a magnetic strip (much like a credit card) that was swiped through a card reader. I then had to enter my personal code. After Sept 11, 2001 they installed biometric fingerprint readers that were used in tandem with our badges. Any employ who was authorized was able to access our sites as quickly as possible. When someone went out on long term leave or separated from the company, their access was disabled immediately. No keys, badges or thumbs were ever collected during my time of employment.

I just find it very hard to believe that Verizon is securing their communications equipment sites as you suggest. :shrug:

[Tesha]

12. Believe it or not, I don't care.

But I live just up the hill from exactly one of these sites; it's
nothing but a glorified hole in the ground. Inside is the
"concentrator" that converts from the fibre optic trunk
lines to about 2000 copper phone lines, some DSL.

Over the years, I've talked to the techs more than once.
It's now Fairpoint Communications gear, but it was Verizon's
for decades.

Tesha

[Modern_Matthew]

6. Bravo, bravo! nt

[readmoreoften]

8. Scab labor not working out for you, Verizon?

[Snotcicles]

9. I would imagine management have keys also, what a perfect way to frame an evil doer. nt

[Zax2me]

10. This is where the term 'union goons' comes from.

Scant incidents that mark the entire 100% by the actions of 1%.
Right or wrong.

[Omaha Steve]

13. This could be a management TRICK!

Happens all the time during strikes. Get the public against the strike by doing things like this. Remember the fake Walker call with a Koch brother? Or the email that suggested a false flag gun incident to get the public support against the protesters?

Get my point?

OS