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Crossed wires in English village
A BIZZARE bit of telecom engineering has resulted in phone lines in a Suffolk village getting crossed.
It all started when a tractor sliced through a cable and cut off the whole of Bruisyard, near Framlingham. But when BT finally got all the wires fixed they found that a number of residents had been connected to someone else's phone number.
John Gibb, of Church Road, is a hack who works from home. He was left without his own telephone line for 23 hours and was worried about the bills that could have been run up off his number.
He said that people could have been using his phone to call all over the world. His line had been connected through to a neighbour in the same road who also needed it for their business, so it is not sure what he was saying about his neighbour.
The local rag said that 10 residents had their lines switched with another property in the mix-up yesterday.
This is not the only time the village has been switched off. Gibb said that BT needs to invest in deeper cables.
He said that the cables are so old and in the wrong places that this happens every year. They should be laid so many feet under the ground.
Mobile reception is nearly non-existent and most of the old people do not use them anyway.
A spokesperson for BT last night said the depth of the cable in Bruisyard met its standards and it was not its fault that a tractor cut them.
He said that there was a problem in jointing this cable, which has caused crossed lines.
The spokesman pointed out that the last time the village was cut off it was because the equipment had been struck by lightning which had nothing to do with the depth of the cable. ยต
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"The spokesman pointed out that the last time the village was cut off it was because the equipment had been struck by lightning which had nothing to do with the depth of the cable."

I think he'll find that the depth of cable is rather important in order for it to be struck by lightning. I reckon about minus 25 feet i.e. up a telephone pole.
"A spokesperson for BT last night said the depth of the cable in Bruisyard met its standards and it was not its fault that a tractor cut them."

Well, maybe the problem is that BT's standards were developed by urban gays and not properly thought out. Like it or not, BT, it IS your fault. It's your cable, and if YOU don't bury it deep enough, and people use the land as it has been used for years, then YOU'RE a bunch of RETARDED IDIOTS.


These cables are either up poles or underground in the highway or road verge, not some farmers field. Naughty ploughman.
The BT jointers were in too much of a hurry. They are rushed to clear the faults. They would have to make 2 new joints, cut back the damaged ends and joint in a new section. I would bet no test calls were made. The jointers certainly wouldnt. However the repair handlers dealing with the reported faults should have. Been there done that. ( X buzzby ) 
Gay and retarded all in one post.... and in capitals too! Thats soem good hatrid you're brewing there.. mind you don't have a heart attack about it!
Didn't he look a bit like a Womble, but was a bird, blue IIRC.

And as for the "gay" comments, I'm guessing he likes South Park. SP has lots of "you gay", because it's meant to be 8 year olds in school. And that is a typical 8 youthful joking insult. SP is v funny, Cartman rocks.

Don't end up being Anti-South Park, or you could be like Internet Inventor Al Gore's wife who said Americans should be more like The Waltons and less like The Simpsons. Simpsons rocks, Waltons suck.