said by patcat88 :

The rich get richer, the poor get poorer. This just proves it, wire stealing is out of a 3rd world country, not the USA. We have a near-3rd world utility infastructure. Maybe if VZ didnt treat WV like a unwanted stepchild ready to be spun off to the likes of Century Tel, people wouldnt treat it like shit, and remember, Fiber optic cable has little to no resale value (you cant fuse/splice together/melt and remake fiber, and when you do, you can do it a limited amount of times before there is no signal left).