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REAL LIFE NEWS: ARMENIA LOSES INTERNET THANKS TO ONE OLD LADY

by Hazed

The eastern European country of Armenia lost its connection to the internet for five hours last week, all thanks to an elderly woman from neighbouring Georgia. She was scavenging for copper which she could sell as scrap, when she accidentally cut through an underground cable - which cut off the internet completely.

Georgia provides 90% of Armenia's internet which is why the accidental damage to the fibre-optic cable had such catastrophic consequences. The internet outage also affected large parts of Georgia and some areas of Azerbaijan.

The 75-year-old woman, who has not been named, is being investigated on suspicion of damaging property and if she is convicted she could go to prison for up to three years. She was apprehended at the scene of the sabotage after a system monitoring the fibre-optic link alerted a security team, who rushed to the site and arrested her.

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/06/georgian-woman-cuts-web-access

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