One Single Telephone Pole in Indio Controls All of The Time Warner Cable

Time Warner Cable

Time Warner Cable

This weekend, a large amount of Time Warner Cable customers were without tv, internet, and phone services. While this led to some amazing Facebook comments, it also left many unhappy customers asking why. KESQ reports:

Time Warner Cable sent us this statement, “Our engineers continue to restore service as quickly as possible. The outage was caused by vandalism to our network last night. We apologize to our customers who have been affected.”

Indio Police say $2,000 worth of fiber optics were stolen off a telephone pole on Highway 111 between Madison and Monroe sometime between 8 and 9 p.m. Saturday night.

Why place the fate of all of The Valley’s cable tv and internet on a single telephone poll in Indio?  Ummm…maybe we don’t even want to ask:

(image via David / CC)