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Article: Vandals hit Comcast in Detroit.(Brief Article)
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- Multichannel News
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- June 17, 2002
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It's an operator's nightmare: An outage during a highly anticipated sporting event. Double that, and imagine the chagrin of executives with Comcast Corp.'s Southeast Division when vandals took down parts of the Detroit system on June 8 - darkening viewers' screens in time for two marquee sporting events.
As many as 14,000 subscribers were unable to see Game 5 of the National Hockey League's Stanley Cup Finals, a triple-overtime affair in which the hometown Red Wings defeated the Carolina Hurricanes. They also lost out on the much-anticipated Mike Tyson-Lennox Lewis heavyweight title PPV fight.
Vandals slashed the plant in two places, minutes apart, at ...