Old lady does more damage to Georgia's internet in one day than the Russians did in their war!

The 75-year-old woman was digging for scrap metal, when she unfortunately hit a cable. Thinking it was valuable, she decided to take it. The fiber optic cable also ran between the two countries, leaving thousands without Internet access.

techland.time.com...

This lady in a matter of seconds shut access to the internet while the Russians, in the war with Georgia in August 2008 were just doing DOS attacks. Bet their sitting over there in Moscow thinking cutting the cable would have much easier.

No conspiracy here just thought it was amusing....although an old lady digging for scrap metal is a perfect cover for a Russian agent!!

In the next war with Georgia the Russians first wave is an army of old scrap metal hunter streaming over the border!

I take it they don't have dig safe? lol!
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reply to post by FarBeyondDriven69


Are you a Dig Safe representative?

I seriously don't think it was an "old lady".

i think it was anon dressed in drag.

Really? Pitching a company?? This isn't Linkedin.

This is kinda interesting ...the other day I was about to post "Did everyone know that one fiber optic cable runs from atlanta to Indianapolis???" And that one line supplies most of the midwest and south east region? I know the guy who maintains it. Yep one guy. When he told me that I couldn't believe it. I guess for security reasons maybe I should nt say the company's name?

Surely, there is somebody on here that knows more about this?

How do you find a fibre optic cable with a metal detector?
it is not metal! I think this is fake.
the old lady "saboteur" would have got no scrap value for the cable.

reply to post by buddha


You don't. While digging for scrap metal she hit it by accident, thinking it had value she took some of it. It wasn't an intentional or malicious act. It's all there in the article.