You might think that the incident earlier this week in which a customer was arrested after a bomb threat to Embarq was an anomaly. However, dissatisfied Cablevision customers are not going to let Embarq’s disgruntled users outdo them in the threat department. A New York man is in prison this week after threatening phone calls which escalated to a warning that he was going to blow up the Cablevision building in the middle of the night. The man admitted to making the threat after becoming angered that a cut cable line leading to uninterrupted service would require a fee for repair. Apparently he thought that offering to explode the building would give Cablevision sufficient reason to do the repair at no cost.

It’s not just unhappy customers that are taking the vigilante approach to dealing with their problems. Members of anti-piracy group BREIN recently went to the home of eDonkey link site ShareConncector’s admin guy and made threats to him there. BREIN had spent several years in litigation with ShareConnector only to lose all lawsuits directed at the link site. When ShareConnector got its site up and running again, BREIN’s only recourse was to go to the admin’s house and make threats. There were no bombs involved but the intimidation tactic worked and ShareConnector took its site down.