Dog's Ill-Advised Chewing Proves Pricey. Cable chomp costs Mississippi county $7K

[Robert59]

A curious dog got hold of a fiber optic cable that ran between county buildings in Mississippi, chewing it to pieces and costing county officials thousands of dollars, per the AP. The cable connected a courthouse and a nearby Justice Court building in Amite County, Tim Wroten, the county’s sheriff, told the Enterprise-Journal. The wire was mostly elevated but dipped to the ground by the front door of the Justice Court building, where the dog chewed it. The culprit was not caught in the act, but officials saw “his running mate" through the security camera, Wroten said.

https://www.newser.com/story/295480/dogs-cable-chomp-costs-county-7k.html

 

[Butterfly]

IMHO it isn't very bright to leave that cable down so low and accessible to dogs, vandals, vermin, etc. in the first place.