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Tom Bombadil
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sa547
Amazing... it took an elderly scavenger looking for copper to take down fiber-optic communications of an entire country:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12985082
China face the same problem. They actually put up signs along the roads that say "there is no copper in optic-fiber" to discourage scavengers from digging these up.
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