expecting to here from me in the last week or so.
We have had the annual ‘travellers’’ robbing session here with about 100m of telephone cable stolen with disatrous results [again].
As a result the two villages have had no phones or internet since a week last thursday.
All is hoped to be fixed by wednesday next.
[HAH]
Please contain your brickabats until at least next thursday as I won’t be in any position to defend myself.
Best to most
tac
www.ovgrs.org
Seems to be a recurring problem during economic downturns. Had that happen a few times in my career with the phone company. I remember one time after putting up a couple spans of new cable when the boss when out and checked and found no cable there. All the hardware was still there, just the cable was gone.
Lets hope it is soon sorted Tac and you are able to read and post here again.
We had to fly boys visit the 1:1 railroad one Sunday morning where I volunteer during the summer. All the permanent staff were of course not there. Luckily they were spotted by a volunteer who gave the van registration plate and description to the police and they were soon apprehended, just five miles away. What they had stolen was a large quantity of signal cabling - lots of copper.
The penalties awarded in the court were slight. Small fine and a short period of Community Service (whatever the h*ll that is!). The penalty of trespass of £1000 was ignored despite camera footage which clearly showed their criminal activity.
I guess they will be back!!!
“Anybody” missed you!
:lol: 
:lol:
I did notice that there was a distinct “Quietness” coming from out East…and I received not one complaint from the East when we discussed “The Practise of Farting” on the chat the other day…There was great moderation in the chat room, and Terry Jackson didn’t need to replentish the bheer in the bheer fridge for at least 3 days…Welcome back Terry…some of us greatly missed your fine contributions.
Get my mail then tel ?
Dear friends and others…messages for
Rod - nope. BTW - the tower is 246 feet high.
Fred - please feel free to fart away. I am distant enough not to to be overly concerned by the effusion.
HJ - in my little world, whether we get on or not, there are only two kinds of people.
People who are friends, and
People I haven’t yet met.
Best
tac
www.ovgrs.org
Terry,
Tis wonderful you are back. Life can once again settle back to the simple things. How much did the wire sell for?
Ric Golding said:
Terry,Tis wonderful you are back. Life can once again settle back to the simple things. How much did the wire sell for?
B&stards.
Besp
tac
www.ovgrs.org
Terry, it might be more cost efficient for the next year’s wire hunting season, to leave an envelope containing $250 hanging from the repaired wire;-)))) Best, Zubi
It would be cheaper in the end to do away with copper wire completely and simply issue new cell phones.
Or VOIP phones over optical fibre internet connection. You never hear of optical fibre cable being stolen for scrap.
In the U.S. what probably keeps them from doing that is many of us only keep our hard wire service for our computers. If we could economically switch I’d dump the hard wire in a minute. I only use my cell phone. We turned off the phone ringer because we got tired of phone solicitors.
Most happy you’re back amongst the live wires again Terry.
I must advise you however that your bi-annual ploy to get new, up to date electrical wiring for your community by swiping the existing wire will catch up to you eventually. When you are finally caught and brought to justice let me know where you are incarcerated and I’ll have Helen bake you a cake with a file in it. After all that’s what friends are for. 
Helen bakes great cakes, so I’m told…and provides the best in files…
Funny how some people can’t live without the internet now days…
Terry A de C Foley said:
expecting to here from me in the last week or so.We have had the annual ‘travellers’’ robbing session here with about 100m of telephone cable stolen with disatrous results [again].
As a result the two villages have had no phones or internet since a week last thursday.
All is hoped to be fixed by wednesday next.
[HAH]
Please contain your brickabats until at least next thursday as I won’t be in any position to defend myself.
Best to most
tac
www.ovgrs.org
Ahemm, Mr Smith - we live in a one of a a cluster of small villages with a large ageing population who rely for their safety in the home on a dangly thing around their necks. In case of an emergency, they press the little red button and they are instantly connected to the emergency services. Without a phone connection they are just a pretty ornament - it has nothing to do with a desperate need to use the internet - most of them wouldn’t know the internet if it walked through their front door whistlin’ ‘Dixie’. It’s no use asking a bunch of post 80-year olds in a residential home to use cell-phones either, hence the reliance on around-the-neck beepers to call for help.
As for those of us here who are young enough to know what the internet actually is and use it, I am just one of the 800 or so inhabitants of our village who works from home - my actual place of work is Minato-ku, Roppongi, Tokyo, a place that is passing difficult to work to unless you have the internet to join you up, especially since I am an imagery analyst and exchange complex and expensive material on-line as a matter of course.
I respectfully suggest that YOU try living without a phone line for eleven days [this time - the last time was seventeen days] and see just how much YOU rely on it, before tut-tutting those of us who have to put up with this criminality as a matter of near routine.
tac
www.ovgrs.org
Hey tac, do they have satellite Internet where you live?
There is even satellite Internet where I am. In fact I am using it right now. At 3.6 Mbps I know it isn’t all that fast, but it works just fine for me.
Not all that expensive either. I pay A$120 for 12 Gig over 12 months. I can top up at any time.
Well I did have satellite access. Just as I went to post this message the connection died.
More Vodaphone/Hutchinson shenanigans and lack of service quality I suspect.
TonyWalsham said:
There is even satellite Internet where I am. In fact I am using it right now. At 3.6 Mbps I know it isn't all that fast, but it works just fine for me. Not all that expensive either. I pay A$120 for 12 Gig over 12 months. I can top up at any time.Well I did have satellite access. Just as I went to post this message the connection died.
More Vodaphone/Hutchinson shenanigans and lack of service quality I suspect.