FBI Investigating Series of Fiber Cuts In San Francisco Bay Area

Posted by samzenpus on Monday June 15, 2015 @11:29PM from the cutting-the-line dept.

jfruh writes: Ten times over four separate nights in the past year, telecom cables have been mysteriously cut in various locations around the San Francisco Bay Area. Now the FBI is investigating the incidents as potential sabotage. ITWorld reports: "In the past year, there were 10 instances on four separate nights when telecom cables were intentionally cut in Fremont, Walnut Creek, Alamo, Berkeley and San Jose, the agency said Monday. FBI Special Agent Greg Wuthrich said it's unclear if the incidents are unrelated or the work of a single person or group, but the FBI is keen to hear from anyone who may have witnessed anything suspicious."

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Re:...meth by jittles · 2015-06-16 00:18 · Score: 5, Informative

Nope. Fiber optic, not copper comm lines, so this incident cannot be ascribed to greed rather than mischief.
This is an anecdote and I don't have any evidence to back it up but I know that copper theft is very common here (as it is in most of the US). A phone company guy once told me that they've started labeling the fiber to indicate that there is no copper so that copper thieves don't rip out a half a mile of the stuff only to realize it's useless to them.