A good few years back there was a major outage in my town when thieves ripped open manhole covers and ducting in a quiet part of an industrial estate over the weekend, and set a huge section of telecoms cables on fire.

This was part of some hare brained scheme to steal copper - but instead resulted in several fibre chambers being completely gutted, breaking multiple provider cables in several places - if they’d planned it like this they couldn’t have had a better result with all of the services they’d knocked out.