Wednesday, 28 September 2011

"Hungry cows cause misery for mobile 'phone users in West Cumbria"

Spotted by VFTS in The News & Star:

Mobile phone users in west Cumbria have been left without signal for weeks – because of a field of peckish cows.

The hungry herbivores broke through a fence around a mast at Moota, near Cockermouth and ate a vital link in the Vodafone line. James Waite, of Redmain, near Moota, said he had been unable to get a Vodafone mobile signal for nearly three weeks as a result...


First rule of warfare: disable the enemy's communication networks.

2 comments:

Pavlov's Cat said...

First rule of warfare: disable the enemy's communication networks.

Spot on

Also disrupt the enemy's supply lines

Pigs block road Chickens block road

A K Haart said...

Moota? Is that their headquarters?