In 2011 a 75yrs old woman accidentally cuts off internet to 75% of Armenians,find out how!

An elderly Georgian woman was
scavenging for copper to sell as scrap when
she accidentally sliced through an
underground cable and cut off internet
services to all of neighbouring Armenia, it
emerged on Wednesday.
The woman, 75, had been digging for
the metal not far from the capital Tbilisi
when her spade damaged the fibre-optic
cable on 28 March.
As Georgia provides 90% of Armenia's
internet, the woman's unwitting sabotage
had catastrophic consequences. Web users
in the nation of 3.2 million people were
left twiddling their thumbs for up to five
hours as the country's main internet
providers - ArmenTel, FiberNet
Communication and GNC-Alfa – were
prevented from supplying their normal
service. Television pictures showed
reporters at a news agency in the capital
Yerevan staring glumly at blank screens.
Large parts of Georgia and some areas
of Azerbaijan were also affected.
"It was a 75-year-old woman who was
digging for copper in the ground so that she
could sell it for scrap," said a spokesman
for Georgia's interior ministry said
yesterday.
Dubbed "the spade-hacker" by local
media, the woman – who has not been
named – is being investigated on suspicion
of damaging property. She faces up to three
years in prison if charged and convicted.
A spokesman for Georgia's interior
ministry said the woman was temporarily
released "on account of her old age" but
could face more questioning.
The damage was detected by a system
monitoring the fibre-optic link from
western Europe and a security team was
immediately dispatched to the spot, where
the woman was arrested. The interior
ministry said she had no accomplices.
The cable is owned by the Georgian
railway network. It is heavily protected,
but landslides or heavy rain may have
exposed it to scavengers.
Pulling up unused copper cables for
scrap is a common means of making money
in the former Soviet Union. Some
entrepreneurs have even used tractors to
wrench out hundreds of metres of cable
from the former nuclear testing ground at
Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan.