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April 12, 2011
Hunting copper
Pensioner in Georgia cuts Armenia off from internetAn elderly woman in Georgia is facing a prison sentence after reportedly causing internet services in neighbouring Armenia to crash.
The country found itself offline for hours on 28 March after cables linking Georgia to Armenia were damaged.
A Georgian interior ministry spokesman said a 75-year-old woman had admitted damaging fibre-optic cables while scavenging for copper. [...]
She had been searching for copper in the Georgian village of Ksani.
Posted by joke du jour at April 12, 2011 08:01 PM
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