75-Year-Old Woman Single-Handedly Cuts Off Internet for Two Countries
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75 year old cuts off two countries' internet! - Hindustan Times
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Georgian police arrested a 75-year-old woman who single-handedly cut off internet connections in Georgia and neighbouring Armenia, the interior ministry in Tbilisi said on Wednesday.
The pensioner was digging for scrap metal when she hacked into a fibre-optic cable which runs through Georgia t o Armenia, forcing many thousands of Internet users in both countries offline for several hours on March 28.
"She found the cable while collecting scrap metal and cut it to with a view to stealing it," Georgian interior ministry spokesman Zura Gvenetadze told AFP.
The woman who was arrested in the village of Ksani has been charged with damaging property and could face up to three years in prison if convicted.
"Taking into account her advancing years, she has been released pending the end of the investigation and subsequent trial," Gvenetadze said.
Many Georgians' internet connections were also briefly cut in 2009 by another scavenger who damaged the fibre-optic cable while hunting for scrap metal in the impoverished ex-Soviet state.
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I've read around to find that Pulling up unused copper cables for scrap is a common means of making money in the former Soviet Union. Some entrepreneurs have even used tractors to wrench out hundreds of miles of cable from the former nuclear testing ground at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan.
Fills my heart my warmth....
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