Only In Cleveland

[Jim DeVito]

Only In Cleveland

[Brian Pedaci]

That wasn't quite the story the way it appeared in the Plain Dealer.

It was even more embarrassing.

PD Article

Near Euclid Avenue and East 65th Street, someone apparently used a chain saw Sunday afternoon to cut through a high-capacity Internet trunk line, part of the backbone of the Internet. Although the thieves may have been seeking copper, there is no copper in fiber-optic cable.

When workers went to fix the underground cables, they found that the coil of replacement cable they brought from a warehouse had been damaged by a gunshot, making it unusable.