Missing Cable

Moot · Aug 25, 2007

Is anyone missing or know of someone who is missing approximately 60' of coaxial cable. This fine length of cable is shielded and mated with both a single strand of solid 20 gauge copper and aluminum wire. All completely encased in a weatherproof sheath.

If you know who belongs to this co-ax cable, or would like to learn more information about this cable, please contact Cheri.

Fr8 Shaker · Aug 25, 2007

Might want to see who is without power or phone service. LOL

highway star · Aug 25, 2007

Hmmm... Maybe I'll give Cheri a call today.

Packmule · Aug 25, 2007

Is there a TV, Dish and cable box receiver that goes with that cable? If so, It's mine! It must have fallen out of the back of my Van! Yeah that's it...Fell out of my van...yeah that's the ticket.

No TV or Satellite...Must be someone Else's.

Danny

cheri1122 · Aug 25, 2007

I tried to put it back where it belongs, really - but it stuck tight to the top of my truck, thanks to the loose piece of metal that caught it in the first place, on top of the box.
Note to any other driver who asks a fellow driver for assistance: try to find one who hasn't got a cameraphone...:+

arkjarhead · Aug 25, 2007

don't feel bad i pulled a cable down like that one time when i was driving for panther. i followed the directions provided by another driver come to find out he was a van driver so of course he wasn't to tall.

Moot · Aug 26, 2007

That was no camera phone, it was my sneaky little Vivitar!

LDB · Aug 26, 2007

It's probably a teleportation experimental cable. I was driving down US 59 in Texas and pulled to the shoulder of the road to walk to a Dairy Queen. There was a cable trailing from my QC bracket. It was a long piece of cable. It wasn't there during my pti that morning and I hadn't been off the highway since starting. I am pretty sure I didn't catch it at 60mph going down 59 or I'd have noticed it. It wasn't overhead on the shoulder of the road either. I have no clue where it could have come from.

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cheri1122 · Aug 26, 2007

Mine was no mystery - I felt the tug, when I pulled into a small shopping plaza to turn around. I didn't see the cables, though, till I pulled back out onto the highway.
I've known that there was a loose flap of trim on top of the box for awhile, just didn't realize what it could do, grabbing wires that I normally slide under. The loose flap will be nailed down ASAP, now.

Pappy · Aug 27, 2007

I knew I left something somewhere.... I just could'nt remember the what or when part!

Pappy

FireGears · Aug 27, 2007

OOOOOOOOOOOPS..!!!

After 35-years in the fire Service I can tell ya..

"STUFF HAPPENS" :7 :7

Thankfully, no one was injured
and "stuff" can be repaired or replaced.

What was the outcome when you contacted
the "owner" of the cable service.??

Do you have to pay for the repairs.??

If so, will your insurance cover the costs.???

Anyway, if it never gets worse than this, COOL..!!

STAY FROSTY .. :+ :+

plus

mrgoodtude · Aug 27, 2007

Cheri maybe there is a future for you in house moving???

cheri1122 · Aug 27, 2007

You mean on purpose?!:+
And to answer Firegears' questions, had there been any possibility of determining ownership of the cables, I would certainly have presented myself at the scene of the crime, to accept resposibility, and make restitution - I am responsible for my actions, and don't try to evade that reponsibility.
However, the incident occurred after midnight, on a street full of shopping plazas, or 'strip centers' - by the time I was able to turn into another, larger parking lot, I wasn't sure which one I'd turned into the first time. Since there wouldn't have been any obvious damage where the cable came down, I had no way of finding the place for sure.
Maybe I should have left a note, something like the first post here, at 5 or 6 little plazas, but it just didn't occur to me.
Drivers: what would you have done, in this situation? Not that I plan on a repeat performance, just wondering.

greg334 · Aug 27, 2007

Yea Cheri it is only cable cable, you could have ripped an entire trunk feed for the phone company off the pole and drove down the road with it.

slfisher45 · Aug 27, 2007

Hey Cherie, Firegears had a not so cute but so obvious way of asking if you took resposibility for your actions.
Late at night like that it is difficult to retrace your movement, especially in an area you may not have been familiar with. I am assuming it wasn't well lit at the entrance to the mall to discern the low hanging wire(s) let alone recognize it as (your) mall. You can do only so much to rectify a situation and you certainly can't arbitrarily leave personal information about yourself for any one to access.

My position on the levity of this episode would probably get my post removed.
Everyone that views the broken cable will know a car didn't rip it.