[Rant] - Stupid Neighbor

Do you have any problems with your neighbor?

 

Does your neighbor have teen age kids?

 

Generally the outside cable box serves more than one house. Ask the other house if anyone has been cutting their cable line.

 

The box we have is in my yard and there is no exposed cable except where it comes into my house (perhaps 50 feet away). In order for someone to cut my cable they would have to physically break into the box or cut it near my house or dig up the cable from underground.

Is there actually exposed cable around the box or is it easily accesible to any and every one?

 

Pure laziness on Time Warner's part. The cable should be underground and not exposed. Even if it is exposed, the neighbor should not cut it. Time Warner should warn him. It's not your duty. He is tampering with their property.

I would report it using the cable theft number. They may take it more seriously since the guy is stealing your cable by cutting your line. Frame it as cable theft. If a cop shows up at the neighbor's door, he will crap his pants.

 

Call the cops. Someone is destroying property. If its the owner of the house they'll probably cut it out when the cops show up on his doorstep. If it is kids the owner will probably also put a stop to it when the cops show up on his doorstep.

 

Kick his ass and ask questions later...

 

maybe when he cuts everyone's lines, his download speed doubles or triples, and he's that desperate for it......but that would be pretty crazy

 

That doesn't mean you can't call it in as a cable theft.

 

Ok I haven't had this happen to me but I have one of those cable distribution boxes in my backyard. The bad thing is the TWC installers (usually contractors) are so lazy that they didn't even attempt to bury my next door neighbor's new cable line. It was just laying on top of my grass. The wire came up from underneath the cover. I even reported this twice to TWC (and I'm not even a customer) because I was worried about cutting it w/my mower. I used to mow up to that area and then use a weed wacker to carefully cut the rest of it.

Well TWC never came out to fix it so my dad went back there and buried it. Thank goodness too cause I was getting tired of mowing around it. Anyways to make a long story short, at least you got TWC to come out and do something.

 

That's BS. It's their customer and their equipment. Their customer is cutting their cable line, how is that your problem?

I'll bet the guy is cutting the line on purpose so he can get better reception and/or faster download times. Not sure if that would make a difference, but he probably just assumes it does. He's probably some kind of child molestor who wants to download his kiddie p*rn faster.

You should call TWC back and ask to speak to a manager. Their customer is destroying their equipment. It really shouldn't have anything to do with you aside from the fact that it's your line he's cutting.

 

He's stealing from you. You pay for cable and you cannot watch cause he keeps cutting the line. Sounds like theft to me.

Doesn't someone here work for Time Warner? Maybe they can give you a number that you can speak to someone who can do something and not some customer service rep who has no clue.

 

If you have a clear line of sight to the cable box from your property, set up a camera and record it...

or just call the cops like people have been suggesting.

 

Talk to Steely Dan.

I hear they have this Russian Navy Seal dude.

 

For the right price i know people that would take care of your problem..!!!