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Old 01-01-2009, 09:01 AM  
Barefootsies
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Originally Posted by SarahLLO View Post
Same thing has happened to me, numerous times. People don't seem to realize that by splicing into someone else's cable, you're not screwing the company as much as you're screwing the person who's paying for the cable. Some people are such self-entitled assholes that they simply don't care, though... THEY want free cable, so the neighbor who's paying $120 a month for business class internet/cable just has to deal with their connection going out every other day =P Even telling them that I required the internet to do my job and to pay my bills didn't seem to faze them... they spliced - or attempting to splice, they were pretty awful at it and a couple of times they just ended up shredding the cables - until they eventually got evicted (for nonpayment of rent, surprise surprise).

I'm bitter, can you tell?
Same end result at the place I lived. I was there for 9-10 years, and there must have been 30 tenants that came through the bottom apartments. I tried everything from talking to them nicely, to reporting them, to cutting their cable lines.
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