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'The first time I told them to leave,' says woman
(old news - 12:08PM Friday Dec 30 2005)
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A 45 year old Tampa housewife was so frustrated with Verizon Fios installers digging in her yard, she tried to run them down with her car, according to local news reports. The woman was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. "Sentence her to life with cable!" jokes one of the users in our Verizon Fiber Optic forum.

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vic102482
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Cruel and Unusual Punishment!

quote:
"Sentence her to life with cable!"

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Re: Cruel and Unusual Punishment!

said by vic102482 See Profile :

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"Sentence her to life with cable!"
YAY for unbiased news bites!!!!
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said by vic102482 See Profile :

quote:
"Sentence her to life with cable!"
Or SBC DSL on a 192/128 fixed interleaved with a 2% packet loss on a crappy linksys router we can find. Either that or dial up.



Sorry... my $0.02
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said by vic102482 See Profile :

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"Sentence her to life with cable!"
That should read "Sentence her to life with dialup!"
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Re: Cruel and Unusual Punishment!

Better yet how about sentence her to life of 1200 bps dialup access.

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i almost feel ashamed to say i live in the same city with this nut! she has no idea how many people would have coffee and donuts for them digging in their yards
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Andrew
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Re: Cruel and Unusual Punishment!

Many more like em around here.

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said by pcdebb See Profile :

i almost feel ashamed to say i live in the same city with this nut! she has no idea how many people would have coffee and donuts for them digging in their yards
Not when your not ordering the service they are installing. Some people may have a problem with someone digging up their yard so their neighbor can have fios.

packetscan
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Mental help

Sounds like someone needs to spend some time in the Looney bin.
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ff1324
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Re: Mental Midget

Umm, she was upset that they were digging up her yard time and time again.

So naturally, she drove her car in her yard. I'm sure that was good for the turf.
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packetscan
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Re: Mental Midget

Ok.. But you don't threaten them with your car.

You call and or write the company and complain.
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koveman

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Re: Mental Midget

I think you missed the joke. Inability to spot obvious humor could land YOU in the "loony bin".

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Re: Mental Midget

The Joke?

I don't see how risking someones life is a joke..

james

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Re: Mental Midget

I do, but I've got problems. I laugh at inappropriate times in movies.

packetscan
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Re: Mental Midget

I have that problem at the movies as well.

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why not? they do it all the time on tv

ff1324
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Re: Mental help

Actually, I was not making a joke. I was pointing out an irony. She's worried about her yard yet destroys it herself to defend it.
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koveman

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Re: Mental help

Sorry, I thought that irony used for humor could be considered a joke.

ff1324
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Oh it can, and it was, however some others around here needed the difference between the two explained to them. (you didn't though).
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tcope
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Just another event...

First mistake... running her vehicle up on her lawn near the workers. Second mistake... giving a statement to ABC news, admitting to it and stating that she was at least 3 feet from them.

Clearly she's unbalanced. Clearly the charges will be reduced to something minor. I'm guessing a charge that will not include jail, community service and a long probation period.
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Re: Just another event...

said by tcope See Profile :

First mistake... running her vehicle up on her lawn near the workers. Second mistake... giving a statement to ABC news, admitting to it and stating that she was at least 3 feet from them.

Clearly she's unbalanced. Clearly the charges will be reduced to something minor. I'm guessing a charge that will not include jail, community service and a long probation period.
Hopefully it does include some (lots of) time in a mental ward. Man what a nutter

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Re: Just another event...

She probably won't get anything by a slap on the wrist because she's a woman. Justice isn't blind when it comes to gender.
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Re: Just another event...

said by juicelee See Profile :

She probably won't get anything by a slap on the wrist because she's a woman. Justice isn't blind when it comes to gender.
only in your stupid country.

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Re: Just another event...

Yeah, I'm sure you guys gas women by the hundreds everyday up there because you Canadians are just so darn tough, eh? At least our army amounts to more than a couple of men in ghey red uniforms riding horses. Call us what you want but Canada's the country everybody doesn't remember exists until somebody else mentions it.

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Re: Just another event...

Just so you are aware Captain America. Canada lost a higher percentage of their citizens fighting in world war 2 compared to the United States »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_···sualties . Also the longest sniper kill in combat was 2,400 meters by a Canadian soldier(using US ammunition.
Canada is one of our closest allies. If you are going to attack someone attack the French!
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Re: Just another event...

Canada is too close to us to be considered an Ally, we are watching you Canada.....flinch and there will be many troops at the border! LOL

Quit fighting you two, we are all North American Brethren!

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said by Vengarr See Profile :

Canada is one of our closest allies. If you are going to attack someone attack the French!
The closest ones are all in Canada.

moko

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"She probably won't get anything by a slap on the wrist because she's a woman. Justice isn't blind when it comes to gender"

you got that right

ylen131

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she should sue to stop them from digging

She should have taken the court to get them to stop digging, if that my house i would take them to court and keep the appeals going for years

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Re: she should sue to stop them from digging

no she will be going to a Looney bin.
adkinsjm

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Utility workers have an easement that allows access at all times for work. That includes electricity, water, gas, phone, cable, and sewer. The easement trumps private property since it is a part of the deed or title to the land.

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Re: she should sue to stop them from digging

said by adkinsjm See Profile :

said by ylen131 See Profile :

She should have taken the court to get them to stop digging, if that my house i would take them to court and keep the appeals going for years
Utility workers have an easement that allows access at all times for work. That includes electricity, water, gas, phone, cable, and sewer. The easement trumps private property since it is a part of the deed or title to the land.
Don't try to argue logic and legalities. Everything's (misplaced) personal rights with him...

At any rate, even if she tried to sue, it would be pretty much summarily dismissed (even if she could find a lawyer to work on her behalf in the first place).

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said by adkinsjm See Profile :

Utility workers have an easement that allows access at all times for work. That includes electricity, water, gas, phone, cable, and sewer. The easement trumps private property since it is a part of the deed or title to the land.
Actually when they installed the fiber for fios around here they not only dig on the county easment but also on your property as well. I dont know why they couldnt put all of it in the county easment. I speaking of the fiber install and not the install to your house btw.

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said by ylen131 See Profile :

She should have taken the court to get them to stop digging, if that my house i would take them to court and keep the appeals going for years
Here he goes again, what part of utility easement is not comprehend able?

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Lucky for workers not Oklahoma or Texas

It was lucky this was in Florida instead of Oklahoma or Texas. There they shoot trespassers instead of scaring them with a car.
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NickD
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Why?

I'd love to have people digging up my yard to install Fios here

Wills

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Re: Why?

said by NickD See Profile :

I'd love to have people digging up my yard to install Fios here
Yeah really...I think I'd grab a shovel and help.
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Re: Why?

said by Wills See Profile :

said by NickD See Profile :

I'd love to have people digging up my yard to install Fios here
Yeah really...I think I'd grab a shovel and help.
Hek I might help!!!
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Anonymous
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OK but...

...she stopped and did not hit anyone. They did not have to run for their lives so I see no point in assault with a deadly weapon charge. Maybe threat with a deadly weapon charge but I'm sure there is no such thing.

But on the other hand I hate people who think their yards are sacred grounds. I think she should be shot and buried in the same trench with the fiber.

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jamesb478

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my 2 cents

I know people work hard on their yards and they want to keep them neat, but if they have the right away, then people shouldnt complain, I know you might get mad having them in your yard, but I think Verizon and other utility workers should post a notice on the residents house telling them they will be working in their yard on the right away and that they have permission to do this under xx law.

brooklynman4

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Community Service??

Here community service will be digging up backyards for free lol .

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Re: my 2 cents

They give notice well in advance.

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said by jamesb478 See Profile :

I know people work hard on their yards and they want to keep them neat
Even if I were to have the neatest yard in the whole state of Florida.
I wouldn't care if Verizon had to do surface strip mining of my entire yard,Just hook me up with the damn fiber already.Here's a couple cases of cold Budweiser,to ensure i get fios first.

Seriously though, the work crews will repair and re-groom,re seed any temporary damage done.

Fiber install 1st, yard work 2nd, a truckload of topsoil is cheap.If that was my wife I'd have put her on a slow boat to China.I guess she doesn't know the difference between a rut and a grave is only the depth, an one can't take that nice looking yard with you.
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OMG! That's awful! ...

Karl, Your getting all tabloid on us with this piece!

So, is she pretty? Were the workmen brawny & dumb-like-stumps looking? Can we have a PMS speculation? Did the shirtless workers step on the azaleas?

Inquiring minds want to reinforce stereotypes!

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Re: OMG! That's awful! ...

said by jap See Profile :

So, is she pretty?
Check the link and draw your own conclusion...
waiting4fios

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proper punishment...

would be community service helping the Verizon workers dig the trenches.

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Skip the Buried Neighborhoods - Go For Aerial

Randolph Hills MD, a community served by the Montrose Road CO (RKVLMDMR) has an aerial plant. No workers need to risk their lives digging in anyone's yard.

We'd LOVE to have FiOS here.
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Re: Skip the Buried Neighborhoods - Go For Aerial

They would have a rough time putting anything in the ground there.. all rock from one end of Montrose to the other.. and I remember it when it was just 1 lane ..:o

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LMAO

That's just great, funny as hell.

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Destruction of Property

Several years ago Time Warner dug up our back yard when digital cable was installed in the subdivision. TW left with both fences damaged, a half filled trench that was a hazard to my kids and an attitude that they were not responsible for putting our yard back to as found condition. I called TW and complained and their reaction was they did not care since I was not a customer. I ended up paying for repairing the fence and the dirt to fill in the trench. It will be a cold day in hell before I use TW cable and a colder day before they have permission to do any physical work in our yard without a performance bond.

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P2PPirate2

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Stop Digging

Oh. come on now, we all know that she was afraid the workers digging in her yard may find dead dogs and cats she buried there awhile ago.:D

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Fark dot com tag "FLORIDA"

/She thought they said "we are planting you more fiber"
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If they were in my yard I will go bring them out food and make sure they efficently install the service because I would love fiber optic lines to get my internet faster.

oh grreat

Grreat!

That's just lovely, now Verizon has justification to slow down deployment of Fiber to the home!
Just what we all needed, dammit!

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Water the Lawn

I would have just watered the lawn. And keep on 'spraying' the verizon guys with water until they got the point

Luckily, I live in North Jersey. We have 'Telephone' poles instead of 'nice' lawns

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Sounds like a....

She sounds like a real "B". Probably has nothing better to do with her life than pester utility workers. I hate these kind of people.
It's easement. Nuff said. Shut up and go inside. Call the police. If you don't like it when they are done, call and complain or sue them or whatever. Don't threaten people just doing their job. This kind of crap is getting more common (more upgrades I guess?). I'm encountering it quite often. Remember this mantra: "Utility workers are not my whipping boys."

She's lucky none of those guys were like me. They'd be towing her car away with a flatbed by the time I got done with it. She's real lucky she didn't get a sledge hammer or pick through the windshield.

Hopefully she gets punished.
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rec9140
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Sentence her to dig and install FIOS!

Starting with my house!

First off, utilities have a right of way to install what ever they need to operate. END OF DISCUSSION. You don't get to say whether they can access it or use it. ITS THE LAW they get access and get to use it!

Second, to all the whiners about their yards. GET OVER IT! VZ or any else cuts up my yard, oh well. The grass will grow back. No I am not going to do anything to help it grow, water, seed, fertilize etc.. What ever condition the utility leaves it in is the state its going to stay.

So VZ quit digging up the whiners yards COME TO MY PLACE!

The benefits of digging at my house:

1) Free VZ Fios Worker parking. I will make sure you have all the places to park any equipment you want

2) Steak, beer, burgers, brats, ON ME!

3) Dig up the yard all you want, I COULD CARE LESS! Its only grass.

4) Neighbors give you any lip, NO problem I can take care of them

VZ Fios impeders.... off with their heads! Or at least turn their phone service off!
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Re: Sentence her to dig and install FIOS!

Oh man, I wished you were my dad, I can't really have FiOS because my parents don't want them drilling and digging. It's been available in my area since summer, but I'm happy with my 5/2mbps cable Internet anyways.
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Spayed & Neutered

People like this should be spayed/neutered.

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