[Tom Bombadil]

Originally Posted by 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.