Was Burning The House Down Part Of The Free Installation Offer?
from the wow,-this-HD-stuff-sure-does-make-those-fire-engines-look-real dept
A Verizon installer apparently started a fire at a home in a Boston suburb earlier this week, when he was drilling on the outside of the house and hit an electrical main. Perhaps this story wouldn't be so notable if this sort of thing didn't happen with some frequency -- as it's not the first time this sort of thing has happened. Meanwhile, over at Broadband Reports, one of their users says a shoddy installation by Time Warner resulted in a chunk of their fence burning down. All things considered, though, perhaps these folks should just feel lucky that the techs didn't blow up their house and kill them.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Was Burning The House Down Was???
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Ooops. Fixed. Thanks.
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Well where do you think the lawyers stay?
In the law suite near the electrical Maine?
Sorry, couldn't resist...must need resistors...oh no, sorry...
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Did anybody bother reading the article?
Verizon sucks, but let's not make this any more sensational than it needs to be.
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drilling blind
Just another article that helps people jump to conclusions, as they love to do.
just like politics, make up your mind without the info.
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Re: drilling blind
Great point. Probably wasn't. Ugh. ;(
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Though this was Carmel, ME
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Big Buisness, Cheep Labor.
There are many things that can lead to such an event happening. Apparently the technician just clipped a line, and called the fire department to ensure everything was OK. Last thing you need is an exposed hot wire terminating on itself embedded four inches deep in insullation.
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Ouch
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expect too much
Oh well, not everyone can be intelligent. After going into people homes for 5 years, intelligence is NOT as common as one would hope.
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These type thing happen for many reasons, not to exclude the guy being in a hurry cause he had 5 other houses to go to before he could go home to his family. No one ever looks at it that way. Just blow up the fact that it happened so all the haters can complain, and say how bad so and so company is.
I hate people.......
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happened in St Louis
House burned to the ground
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Lack of Professionalism
BTW, it happens with all installers when they stat to rush; Comcast bought me a very nice new mailbox, after the installer crushed it with his van and he was going forward!
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bad training = ka-booms good trianing = boom$
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a house with wires where they are not suposed to b
You're suposed to know whats behind the place where you're drilling. These people installing these systems are not exactly experts.
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Burning down the house -
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Verizon
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Locates?
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Wall Drilling
I suggested to the company owner that the cost of equipping every one of his trucks with one of those fiber optic inspection devices with the light on the end would be cheaper then a lawsuit.
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