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Aishtan Shakarian 🏆 She's been my personal heroine ever since

Yup. It’s sad. In the end, we are all equally human beings.

🤣🤣

Shovel Gran 1, Georgia Hydro 0.

Sounds like the US today

That is precious.

Something like that happening now for an extended period of time would definitely help.

They may need to bury it deeper

I love that it’s not even her country but the neighboring country, they must have been furious

Well that's easy, if he's sober he's prolly already dead

Whos putting backbone internet lines shallow enough for a granny with a shovel to get at??

😂

Sending this to my mom and accusing her of being a failure.

Even Risky Ronnie knows, call Iowa One before you dig!

what even HAPPENS in eastern europe

Ohhh sounds like a plan!!!

Maybe I could go digging for scrap metal around the beltway

The funniest thing was that when she was questioned about it she said that she didn't know what Internet is.

It really can be that easy. Kinda scary when you think about it.

Grandma-ness is universal lol

We are all a misunderstood crowd. People do not get us.

Did she end up in jail? I forget

Took me a second to realize this was about Georgia the country

The lack of adequate cable protection and the use of basic tools such as a shovel to cut the cable were key factors. The woman was arrested but temporarily released due to her advanced age.

I'm cuttin down the internet!!

Must have been Virgin Fibre who laid it, they can't bury their cables either.

As a former Telecom Tech this hurt me in a very real way.

Countries need multiple connections to the internet. A single point of failure is not acceptable.

Unironically based.

I love this so much

Never underestimate the power of a determined woman with a mission!

She also moonlights for the PLA.

Sick

Wow! My granny's only claim to fame was getting run over by a reindeer 🎵🎶🎵🎶

This would seem to me more of a statement of how poor the cable was buried.

This takes the term “I'm chopping down the internet” way too literally. That woman's got some strength!

Wait, that Georgia. Wait, that kind of backbone. Wait, that kind of fibre. Okay, I get it now.

You go girl 🥰

Hmmm reminds me of a bloke in his 70s doing essentially the same thing

The most dangerous thing to fiber optic data lines is a redneck with a baseball hat and a backhoe!

Ha ha ha

God love her 😂🙏

as gurdjieff said: what does this question signify it signifies that you are digging in your sleep. and only dreaming that you've found metal

Fun fact. Is there such a connection to the current administration? Where would one dig to disconnect it.

As Terry Pratchett observed, little old ladies in black dresses are like ants, capable of lifting many times their own body weight.

Earth working equipment are oppertinistic predators of all buried utilities.

I did that. BUD guy had marked and I had receipt of it too thankfully as the $200,000 fine would have sent us to poor house. Digger cut off while eastern seaboard cutting a fiber optic main they runs through central KY! They landed a helicopter with the technician that could splice it in a field

I’m thinking it wasn’t buried to deeply was it..🤔😬 Let’s go…it’s ok boys, we’ll just cover it with some top soil it’s time to clock out anyway! 🤣🤣

Wow.

hmm. it says here 5 hours, but anyway.. www.theguardian.com/world/2011/a...

Getting out my shovel!

We need this woman and her shovel. I picture people shuffling out of their homes. Squinting at the sunlight like moles.

We need one of these grandmas outside the White House!

Where’s the fiber backbone leading into russia?

She probably used one arm to jam the shovel a metre into the ground.

Agree I'd be my best me without the internet for a while

Kinda sucked to waste so much time troubleshooting tho lol

Perhaps Anonymous will rename themselves Grandma and get busy with their proverbial shovel vis a vis certain other countries. C’mon Grandma! Let’s get it done.

Bloody hell......how deep did she go?

Either Granda was dogged on getting the metal Or the boobs who buried the cable didn’t go deep enough

My grandma was a babushka💙

Same!

was that really a bad thing

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She should have contacted DigSafe.

Are Georgia and Armenia rivals? If so, I can imagine all the Georgians laughing at the situation over some beers

So they didn't run the line properly. If something like this can happen, it's on the comm company, not the grandma.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interne...

Go Dawgs!

For real 😳 🤣

I'm like Armenia? and picturing the state of Georgia. 😂

Call before you dig!

🤣

"The youth were devistated, and suffered withdrawl within the first hour. Service was restored as young people adjusted to 'unplugged life.' Internet use promptly returned to normal. Local grandparents asked when the next outage was. 'It was nice to have a meal without everyone on their phones.'"

"accidentally"

Imagine that!! One little lady with a shovel. We can use her now🤔

Was it really that long ago?!? I feel like it happened only a few years ago… 😅

Go Grandma!

Seems somehow preventable.

"One is none, two is one"

If she still about I hear a few countries might want her help taking out USA links to most of its states & the world. Let's see Donny and his trade tariffs then lol

I remember this day so vividly

The original Georgia that predates the US by ages.

Easy mistake, the reason you know it isn't THAT Georgia, is because there was no meth in her system, and she didn't resist arrest with a thug tweety bird switchblade.

Shocking 😉

youtu.be/gB_zgkdXeGk?...

Lol

Armenia couldn't make this stuff up. Why wasn't it in a protective conduit?

X and starlink depend on fiber....

So Grandma was shoveling shite.

Let’s all stick our shovels into the internet!

Jeorgia (sorry)

LMAO 😂 💀 this is hilarious

That's the issue with statistics and randomness. You can roll 5x natural 20. The question to be asked imho is, how often anchors randomly drop (and politically - are these ships seaworthy enough to be in lake NATO)

Old Mother Leary has entered the chat..

It was a glorious day outside!

In capitalist US, internet pierces you.

lol it must have been very unprotected to someone to be able to knock out a country's internet that easily