atcomsystems.ca/forum Forums General General Telephone & Systems Information Massachusetts man accused of locking Verizon tech in vault

Wow.

Yeah, the whackjobs are out there. I remember way back when I was working for the cable company we had important trunk equipment on a pole that was right next to this guy's driveway. The amp needed periodic maintenance and adjustment and the only way to get to it was to pull into the driveway with the bucket truck or get stuck in a ditch. So, from about 15 feet off the road is the ROW owned by the town then a short distance after that is the utility easement. So maybe the front wheels were sitting on his pavement. The idiot who owned the house came out and threatened us every time then he would call the company and go to the town and complain that we are making ruts in his driveway and leaking oil. I believe he also kept his lawyer busy writing letters also.

Instead of letting me handle him the company offered to repave his driveway (it was several hundred feet long) then they eventually moved the amp during a rebuild.

-Hal

In most cases, no guard or gas detection is needed when entering a CEV. The exceptions to the rule are: when working after dark you need a guard and when the environmental alarm does not clear, you must sniff and vent the CEV if necessary.

Not condoning what this guy did, but I'd like to hear the back story. I've seen guys do things that could have been avoided, just because they feel they can (ex. parking in the grass when the road shoulder would be fine), and when questioned they become ignorant and well you get the point...

Is there any reason they don't go above ground for these other than maybe zoning?

All the ones that I am aware of in my city are either in a office building basement, stand alone and built to look like the area they are in (houses with a parking pad in the 'burbs and small shipping containers in the industrial parks), or in one case built as part of a strip mall.

MBHydro: Most likely AHJ.

Two months ago I had to inventory a customers SM fiber and the utility vaults between the five buildings were in the middle of their parking lots. They also wanted information on what was in each pipe and where it went.

Sniffer, Cones, Danger Tape, 11 ft Extension Ladder, Watcher...and paper to make plenty of notes.

The final vault had about three feet of water so I decided I had enough information to make an educated guess.

*edited to correct spelling errors*

It appears that this is not his first run in with the law like his supporters are trying to show.