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Jemisa | 14:22 Thu 07th Apr 2011 | News
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A GRANNY wielding a spade cut off the internet to an entire country while scavenging for copper.
Georgian police arrested the 75-year-old who single-handedly severed web connections to neighbouring Armenia with her shovel.

The elderly woman — dubbed the 'spade hacker' — had been digging for scrap metal in the village of Ksani when she struck a fibre-optic cable running between the two nations.

The cable serves both countries as well as Azerbaijan — all three internet providers in Armenia were crippled for hours and services in all three countries were affected.

Georgian interior ministry spokesman Zura Gvenetadze said: "She found the cable while collecting scrap metal and cut it with a view to stealing it."

She faces up to three years in prison if convicted of damaging property in the impoverished ex-Soviet state.

But because of her age the authorities released her pending further enquiries.
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Stunning, care to share a link Jem?
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Mmmm! I would Ed but I've got to confess I have never learnt how to do that. I can do it with pics but I'll have a fiddle & see. Watch this spade (I mean space)

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My Mum's just rung anyone want to buy some Fibre optic cable
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http://www.thesun.co....ountrys-internet.html



Does it work Ed.

jem Media URL: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3514319/Granny-cuts-off-countrys-internet.html
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Will she come and help me cut my new washing line, I have been trying for weeks to do so and have blunted all tools I own.
"But because of her age the authorities released her pending further enquiries."

So, if you want to nick cable from the authorities get granny to say she did it. "Honest guv, here's the spade I used."
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So you don't believe that story then birdi?

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