Verizon Site Mischief Cuts Police Phone Service

Source: WTAE-TV

LEMONT FURNACE, Pa. -- State police in Uniontown said a 29-hour loss of landline phone service was caused by an act of criminal mischief when someone went into locked underground Verizon vaults and shut off the power.

Trooper Timothy Kirsch said there was no forced entry at the sites on Main Street and on Route 119 in Lemont Furnace, near the Penn State Fayette campus. Police believe whoever shut off the power had keys.

Police are trying to determine if the incident, which began at about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, is related to an ongoing strike by Verizon landline workers.

The local state police barracks was without phone and computer service for 21 hours, police said. Calls had to be forwarded to dispatchers who worked out of another barracks several miles away.

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After all if they did they would for sure be fired with cause not to mention face possible criminal charges for it like say manslaughter charges if someone died because no would could call for help in time.

this would be no help to the workers cause. Management knows that too and has a greater incentive to make the union workers look bad by sabotageing the plant. It happens every strike and the culpret(s) are never found. I think the bosses do it. I put nothing past corporate scumbags.

Good wishes to all our sisters and brothers at CWA and may you crush the corporate scumbags who feed on the blood of the workers!

This has union fingerprints all over it, just like they trash cars of people working.

It could be that the door wasnt locked or maybe it malfunctioned and some joker decided to do this for whatever reason.

:wtf:

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