Verizon FiOS "Smoking Hot"
A slew of fun links here, here, here, here, and here, outline some recent “controversy” over a Verizon FiOS install that got abruptly interrupted when the installing technician accidentally drilled through an electrical cable, resulting in smoke coming out of the electrical box.
It’s fun to watch the overaggressive bloggers make way too big of a deal of it, with TechDirt noting that “it happens with some frequency” (this being, of course, the “all-too-frequent” second noted incident).
I guess I’m a little sympathetic to the Verizon FiOS installer. I’ve done a few, small scale cabling runs in a past life and very quickly learned that it’s something that I lack both the aptitude, inclination, and skills for. It’s hard, crazy work and is often quite problematic. In the end, I’m only surprised that accidents like this happen so rarely or that one of my handful of cabling jobs didn’t end the same way…