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Tuesday, June 2, 2009

News "You Just Hit Our Line"

Posted by Anthony Hecht on Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 8:44 AM

The Washington Post reports on some of the special hazards faced by construction crews working around Washington, D.C.

This part happens all the time: A construction crew putting up an office building in the heart of Tysons Corner a few years ago hit a fiber optic cable no one knew was there.

This part doesn't: Within moments, three black sport-utility vehicles drove up, a half-dozen men in suits jumped out and one said, "You just hit our line."

"The construction manager was shocked," Georgelas recalled. "He had never seen a line get cut and people show up within seconds."

Surprisingly, "a CIA spokeswoman would not comment when asked about the agency's use of communications lines through Tysons."

via gruber

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Nine years ago, lol

Posted by StillNon on June 2, 2009 at 8:54 AM

that is awesome, it totally negates all that call before you dig crap, good thing they don't run high voltage lines next to the fiber optics to power their headquarters

Posted by Andy_Squirrel on June 2, 2009 at 9:16 AM

I would find that unsurprising, actually.

Posted by sepiolida on June 2, 2009 at 10:11 AM

That makes sense with the massive amounts of sideways construction going on in Tysons and the proximity to the capitol and what not.

Tysons was just featured on the episode of PBS Frontline about suburban sprawl and the effect on water that also focused a ton on Puget Sound and King County's land use laws. Sounds incredibly boring... in reality it was truly captivating/infuriating. I highly recommend it. I gained a lot of respect for Sims after watching it. Tysons looks like a miserable commuter hell. Heres a link:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/…

Posted by JoeHalfRack on June 2, 2009 at 11:12 AM