08-28-2024, 02:16 AM
One morning, maybe 5 years ago, I was walking with the dog, and as as we reached a more remote area, I noticed a local news truck, with a reporter getting ready for a live feed. He was doing a story about terrorists targeting internet communications. I explained that it was actually metal thieves that had pulled down the fiber optic line, thinking it was copper. Their metal processing camp was 100 feet away, littered with scrap, human feces and hypodermic needles. The old dirty rope that was used to pull down the line had lain in that field for years. It became a huge national news story about terrorism, and the local interagency terrorism task force along with the FBI were investigating. Pundits in the national press pontificated about the unknown group responsible. I did casually explain my knowledge of the event to a local sheriffs deputy, but there was no interest, and I never got a response.
