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[Bowdon]

SNAILS Attack Virgin Media Broadband Cabinet in Telford, Cause Fire

On the list of bizarre things that can happen to telecoms infrastructure in the UK, having snails attack your broadband cabinet is surely right at the top. But that’s more or less exactly what has happened to Virgin Media in Telford (Shropshire, England).

Let’s face it, we can’t trust snails. Not only do they slime their way around our gardens and eat all our favourite plants, as well as sometimes slithering their way into our homes in order to be greeted by delightful expressions of avid disgust and mutterings of “Iewwww.. snail.. snail!“, but now they’re after our broadband too! No I say! Bugger off snails.

In this case an unspecified number of the slimy gastropods (love that word, it sounds like somebody who visits the pub far too often, assuming such a thing were possible) decided to stage an assault against one of Virgin Media’s cable broadband cabinets on Baldwin Webb Avenue in Donnington.

[Chrysalis]

Given that snails are faster than VM speeds is no wonder they won

[Starman]

I had access to a VM cabinet this week again for the first time in a couple of years. Electrical service supplying it had failed and VM van had been sat on site all day running it via an inverter before we installed our own generator to supply it. This cabinet had a small heater installed which no doubt was to help need the damp down and I suspect might attract snails if there is access for them to get in

tbh we get the same thing with our own old LV feeder pillars they have an old cast iron 60w heater to help reduce damp.