This is just too funy to be true
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/18/telecity_disconnection_farce/A hamfisted worker at colo provider Telecity shut down "several" ISPs and their customers across the country when he started pulling plugs at one of its datacentres late last night.
The hapless wire-scrapper then proceeded to make matters worse, by trying to fix the mess himself.
El Reg hasn't been able to discover the identities of the other internet companies affected, but one ISP has blogged about the incident.
This company, which uses the Datahop ethernet extension service to link Redbus HEX to Telecity HEX, was alerted last night at 10:08pm when all its ADSL2+ customers vanished off the Internet. Alarmed night support staff contacted Telecity, which in turn contacted Datahop.
"The man from Telecity, who says 'sorry that was my fault', and who is described as an 'idiot' by the man from Datahop, managed to knock out at least 5 datahop ports, so affecting a number of ISPs. "Datahop staff then contacted Telecity and told them to make him stop, and banned him from touching anything.
It seems he didn't stop. He had several loose cables, so (as the blogger reports) "He then proceeded to plug them back in randomly.
I think this poor guy was probably the cleaner moving all those pesky cables out of the way while he got rid of the cobwebs
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