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I am not trying to be sexist when I say this, but there are certain things that only a woman can do...like unintentionally knocking the whole country off the internet.

An elderly Georgian woman was scavenging for copper to sell as scrap when she accidentally sliced through an underground cable and cut off internet services to all of neighboring Armenia, it emerged on Wednesday.
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Is it just me or does it seem cheap for the internet connection of an entire country to be transmitted through one single cable?

The woman is apparently going to face three years in prison for this, where she will likely die.

Very sad.
 
Pretty hilarious, one women with a spade cutting of thge internet to an entire country. The cable probably was close to the surface for some reason that is not her fault.
 
Dammit - was in a Georgian hotel in mid fap watching gay donkey p0rn and then my connection died :mad:
 
I got to admit that that's pretty funny. Another funny thing is that I'm Armenian. LOL
 
Zerikin Loukbel said:
Pretty hilarious, one women with a spade cutting of thge internet to an entire country. The cable probably was close to the surface for some reason that is not her fault.
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That the cable was close to the surface isn't her fault, but that she took to cutting it to try to steal the copper certainly is. Yes, she's elderly, but she also commited a crime. If Joe Blow, 20, steals copper and is punished for it, then does it again at 70 we should just ignore it because he's older than he was the first time?
 
Ualdayan said:
That the cable was close to the surface isn't her fault, but that she took to cutting it to try to steal the copper certainly is. Yes, she's elderly, but she also commited a crime. If Joe Blow, 20, steals copper and is punished for it, then does it again at 70 we should just ignore it because he's older than he was the first time?
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Your post would almost make sense if it weren't for one glaring flaw....the cable she cut was fibre optic. ;)

Read the article before you post. :p
 
We can't even call it what it is?

She wasn't "scavenging". She was "stealing". Get it right. Assholes in the US do it all the time.

I have seen pictures of two of these copper thieves. Unfortunately the pics I saw showed that they forgot to take into account the amount of current running through the wires they were digging up and basically melted their own faces off. I, for one, hope she does die in prision, because as soon as she gets out she'll just start ripping off copper again.
 
Driving Vertigo said:
Your post would almost make sense if it weren't for one glaring flaw....the cable she cut was fibre optic. ;)

Read the article before you post. :p
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I find it hard to believe that a garden spade wielded by an old lady could sever a fiber cable by mistake.
Those cables are well insulated, thick and rigid. I'd guess she thought it was copper and was unsheathing it to check or something.
 
Driving Vertigo said:
Your post would almost make sense if it weren't for one glaring flaw....the cable she cut was fibre optic. ;)

Read the article before you post. :p
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That's because a lot of the people who steal copper can't differentiate between the different types of cable. You need to read the article - she specifically went out there to get copper, she specifically went DIGGING for cabling (she admits that), and then when she came upon the fibre optic cable she hacked at it with her spade. You don't seem to understand why they have laws like this but here's a hint from the article:
'Some entrepreneurs have even used tractors to wrench out hundreds of metres of cable from the former nuclear testing ground at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan.'
 
Ualdayan said:
That the cable was close to the surface isn't her fault, but that she took to cutting it to try to steal the copper certainly is. Yes, she's elderly, but she also commited a crime. If Joe Blow, 20, steals copper and is punished for it, then does it again at 70 we should just ignore it because he's older than he was the first time?
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Nop, but being old, unemployed and desperate for money (and probably food) might be a mitigating circumstance.
 
HHunt said:
Nop, but being old, unemployed and desperate for money (and probably food) might be a mitigating circumstance.
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So you find a job, not dig holes in someone else's property. Not mitigating in my POV.
 
Her having done this intentionally only makes it worse, so Steve's not being Sexist.
 
HHunt said:
Nop, but being old, unemployed and desperate for money (and probably food) might be a mitigating circumstance.
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You don't know her financial situation, there's no mention of it in the article. There are people here who steal copper by the truck load and yet have luxury cars. You are completely assuming everything there except her age. As for age, what is the cut off for crimes? How would you have it slide for severity? Do you qualify to get a pass on petty theft at 50? Or is it 60? If you live to be 100 can you get away with a bank robbery? Maybe we should have given Madoff a pardon because his age. Heck, based on how much he owes others he could be considered poorer than 99% of the population.
 
Ualdayan said:
That's because a lot of the people who steal copper can't differentiate between the different types of cable. You need to read the article - she specifically went out there to get copper, she specifically went DIGGING for cabling (she admits that), and then when she came upon the fibre optic cable she hacked at it with her spade. You don't seem to understand why they have laws like this but here's a hint from the article:
'Some entrepreneurs have even used tractors to wrench out hundreds of metres of cable from the former nuclear testing ground at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan.'
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Actually, from the article, it says she is being investigated on suspicion of damaging property which carries a sentence of up to 3 years. Nothing about attempted theft or anything like that. You assume that digging for scrap copper is illegal in the country, but it doesn't say that anywhere in the article. The reference to the testing grounds in Kazakhstan would indicate that much of the cable has been abandoned throughout the former USSR (e.g. command lines left in place after the testing was complete). And that the abandoned metals may simply be considered 'scrap.'

Now as for the other comments on the sentence seeming a bit harsh; It does say UP TO 3 years if CHARGED AND CONVICTED. Its a bit rash to consider her punishment harsh when she has not yet even been charged. In fact police have released her at this point which indicates some level of lenience in the matter.
 
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These are the "sheers"in question.But I was just picking a few flowers officer...
 
Pulling up unused copper cables for scrap is a common means of making money in the former Soviet Union.
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She is 70 years old, an old woman.
She is living in the past, or at least by the past, and not with the times. This is typical of old[er] people.

Is it her fault?

Tricky as it is, if one said that it is not her fault because of these factors, then I can see how different things such as murder and rape could be justified. Why? Because here we are living relative and taking truth as relative. What one truth may be to you, another may not hold as a truth and see a completely opposite viewpoint as truth.

One could believe that sacrificing humans is an okay thing to do, or cannibalism, or murder, or 'forced mating' (aka rape).

It all comes back to philosophy and religion. Yes, religion, because it has everything to do with morals and ethics as well. Wherever your morals come from -- what it is -- is your religion.
 
Trackr said:
Is it just me or does it seem cheap for the internet connection of an entire country to be transmitted through one single cable?

The woman is apparently going to face three years in prison for this, where she will likely die.

Very sad.
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Agreed.

It is very sad.

That being said, she probably should have been trying to steal copper to sell as scrap in the first place... People who do that here face prison time as well, and do real damage when buildings get flooded after thieves break in to the basement and steal the copper tubing...

I can't help but think that you would want to protect an important data line like that a little better than in a way were an elderly woman can just wander up and get access to it...
 
Ualdayan said:
You don't know her financial situation, there's no mention of it in the article. There are people here who steal copper by the truck load and yet have luxury cars. You are completely assuming everything there except her age. As for age, what is the cut off for crimes? How would you have it slide for severity? Do you qualify to get a pass on petty theft at 50? Or is it 60? If you live to be 100 can you get away with a bank robbery? Maybe we should have given Madoff a pardon because his age. Heck, based on how much he owes others he could be considered poorer than 99% of the population.
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Yes, I am indeed assuming. There's a whole range of possibilities here.
On one side is "woman, 50, decides to dig up cable instead of finding job".
On the other end is "woman, 80, has no chance of getting a job and can't live on her retirement; decides to steal cables to buy food".

I have no idea what the job market or pension system is like in Georgia - but both ends are plausible. I wouldn't see it as wrong to take circumstances into the consideration and give a milder punishment in the second case than the first.
 
I like how some people here seem to think that jobs are just falling out of trees in Georgia. "Just go out and find one". Right.
 
Eisenblut said:
I like how some people here seem to think that jobs are just falling out of trees in Georgia. "Just go out and find one". Right.
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Or make one. Jobs don't make themselves no matter what part of the world you're from.
 
What a dumb article, trying to make this out to be an accident. Thieves dig where they know they is cable easily accessible, hoping to slice into copper cable.
 
hmm cant edit my post question is ho far down was she digging with a spade.
Cable must of not been very deep.
 
She's lucky it wasn't a buried power line...this discussion would be pretty different had it been :eek:
 
I would like to see the many posters advocating said 70 year old woman in Georgia to get/make a job to head do the same in her position, even decades younger. :rolleyes:
 
Arcygenical said:
I can't even find a McDonalds that's hiring in this city. Being apathetic is cool though, isn't it. :cool:
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Maybe from my point of view it's not. I come to work in the city every day for the past 6-7 years and see the same bum sitting on their asses those 6-7 years not even remotely trying to find work holding the same sign those 6-7 years (one of them particularly annoying, "lost my luggage and wallet and trying to get a train ticket home" for over a year. You'd think the local police would boost her for scam).

I'll grant that there are people out there that's genuinely trying to find work, but if you're healthy enough to dig cables out of the ground, you're healthy enough to work at a local textile mill.
 
Trackr said:
Is it just me or does it seem cheap for the internet connection of an entire country to be transmitted through one single cable?

The woman is apparently going to face three years in prison for this, where she will likely die.

Very sad.
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Same thing happened to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan back in 2004. A cable was cut north of Green Bay and the entire UP lost internet, phone, and cell service.
 
Zarathustra[H];1037085361 said:
I can't help but think that you would want to protect an important data line like that a little better than in a way were an elderly woman can just wander up and get access to it...
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Well, the reason they caught her at all is because security around the line detected that it had started to be tampered with and dispatched a security team right away. She also had to dig for it, it wasn't just laying up near the surface.
 
HAHAHA

REMIND ME OF TIME WHEN ME AND MY COMRADE MIKHAIL WERE DIGG UP LINES AND HE SAID TO ME, HEY VLAD, WE HAVE MANY COPPER HERE. I PULL UP MY COPPER AND SILLY MIKHAIL GRABS ONTO THE LIVE ONE AND MELTS HAND OFF. HAHAH, I SAY, YOU ARE PUNY MAN NOW. HOW CAN YOU KILL BEAR? YOU WILL NEVER BE LIKE CZAR. HE SAY, YOU NOT SAY I WEAK, I FROM UKRAINE.
 
Rofl-Mic-Lofl said:
HAHAHA

REMIND ME OF TIME WHEN ME AND MY COMRADE MIKHAIL WERE DIGG UP LINES AND HE SAID TO ME, HEY VLAD, WE HAVE MANY COPPER HERE. I PULL UP MY COPPER AND SILLY MIKHAIL GRABS ONTO THE LIVE ONE AND MELTS HAND OFF. HAHAH, I SAY, YOU ARE PUNY MAN NOW. HOW CAN YOU KILL BEAR? YOU WILL NEVER BE LIKE CZAR. HE SAY, YOU NOT SAY I WEAK, I FROM UKRAINE.
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In Soviet Russia copper steals YOU!
 
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