said by jmn1207 :

Who needs to call before you dig? If you get wet, you found a water line; if you get shocked, you found a power line; if it smells like a fart, you hit a sewer line; and if it smells like a fart and then you explode, you hit a gas line. Oh yeah, and in my particular case, if the phones in your home lose their dial tone, then a telephone line was cut. Hmmm? Perhaps Verizon should have sent out a better trained crew after all?

said by jmn1207 :

I just had an unmarked van pull up to my house the weekend before the scheduled install date with a crew of non-English speaking gentlemen with some shovels. Real high tech stuff, I tell ya.

Who needs to call before you dig? If you get wet, you found a water line; if you get shocked, you found a power line; if it smells like a fart, you hit a sewer line; and if it smells like a fart and then you explode, you hit a gas line. Oh yeah, and in my particular case, if the phones in your home lose their dial tone, then a telephone line was cut. Hmmm? Perhaps Verizon should have sent out a better trained crew after all?

said by jmn1207 :

I just had an unmarked van pull up to my house the weekend before the scheduled install date with a crew of non-English speaking gentlemen with some shovels. Real high tech stuff, I tell ya.

Who needs to call before you dig? If you get wet, you found a water line; if you get shocked, you found a power line; if it smells like a fart, you hit a sewer line; and if it smells like a fart and then you explode, you hit a gas line. Oh yeah, and in my particular case, if the phones in your home lose their dial tone, then a telephone line was cut. Hmmm? Perhaps Verizon should have sent out a better trained crew after all?

said by Eat Me :

Are you a carpenter? Because you hit the nail on the head.

To trench and run the cable myself I will have to rent a backhoe or ditch witch for $600/day. Not to mention I'd either have to hire someone to do it or do it myself.

Paying the utility $400 to do it is a bargain, especially since they'll get the job done right and be liable for any damage they do to other utilities.

said by andyross :

I hope you are joking. By calling a marking service (here in Illinois outside of Chicago, it's J.U.L.I.E) and you hit something that is NOT marked, they take responsibility. If you hit something and didn't have the area marked, you can be fined and sued.

said by TKJunkMail :

This is NOT a good idea. The ISP and/or their installation vendor have purpose built trenching tools that make very short work of laying a trench on customer property. Very few homeowners would have those tools. Also, how many customers will contact the One-call authority before digging, thereby exposing other underground utilities to damage.

said by Tsume :

I'm pretty sure he was pointing out how stupid it was of Verizon to have used (likely illegal) untrained day laborers who couldn't speak the language and didn't call before they dug.

said by Core0000 :

Listen I don't need someone to dig a hole for me, I have been digging holes since I was a kid. Digging holes and burying things..