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True. Some years ago I had to install a 25 pair phone cable at this mental health facility (severely mentally challenged). So the equipment"s down in a basement, and I"ve gotta drill a hole through a thick concrete floor clear at the other end of the building over a shallow craw space. I drilled the hole, carried a reel of cable down to the basement and dragged it out through that long, dark, river rock lined crawl space, low crawling on my elbows, knees and belly. And there were coon eyeballs up on a couple of them trusses. All and all I didn"t care for that, but knew they were down there. The head maint guy let me carry a .22 pistol in some places, but there was no good way to get a shot off, and if missed the chances of hitting a steam pipe or the loud "pow" would have the mentally challened going bonkers. So... low crawl and hope that I didn"t corner one. I was not a happy guy, but it had to be done. A couple of hundred feet later, I found my hole and shoved about 20" or so up and out, then slowly worked my way back out, tie wrapping the cable up along the trusses, making extra sure not to get close to eyeballs. Man was I ever glad when I finally made it out of there!!! I was peppered with fleas, but I was the worlds happiest guy. And then it happened. I made my way back upstairs to terminate the cable end, but when I got there, all 20" or so of it was gone. Was only the 1/2" hole in the floor that I drilled, and two mentally challenged fellas standing there. One was scared and shivering while the other one was hugging and consoling him. He looks at me and says "Mikey"s afraid of snakes, but I"m not, I made it go back into its hole". He shoved my friggin cable back down. I went and got a nurse and made her lock Mikey and his buddy up, then went and crawled all the way back through that crawl space and pushed it back up and terminated both ends. Two days later I was back on a repair on that cable - buttons/lines dead on the phone. A coon had chewed into it in the crawl space. They love phone cable. I pulled a new armored cable through that crawl space, and put 110 VAC on the unused pairs back at the 1A2 KSU hoping a coon would bite into that sheath to make it worth my time and effort. I don"t think one ever did after that. Mark
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