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A curious dog got hold of a fiber optic cable that ran between county buildings in Mississippi, chewing it to pieces and costing county officials thousands of dollars in an attempt to get it fixed.
The cable connected a courthouse and a nearby Justice Court building in Amite County, Tim鈥圵roten, the county鈥檚 sheriff, told the Enterprise-Journal Wednesday.
The wire was mostly elevated but dipped to the ground by the front door of the Justice Court building, where the dog chewed it.
The culprit was not caught in the act, but officials saw 鈥渉is running mate鈥� through the security camera, Wroten said.
The sheriff has a suspect in mind but lacks evidence to hold up his charge. If officials knew who the troublemaker was, the county could seek damages, which amounts to more than $7,000 (around P340,000), from the owner, according to Wroten.
His office first spent $4,000 to establish two antennae that send signals to the cables, but it failed. County supervisors then voted Tuesday to spend an additional $3,600 to get a new cable.
Amite County Justice Court Judge Roger Arnold said it鈥檚 his first time hearing a case like this.
鈥淚 did hear the suspect was still at large,鈥� he quipped.聽IB
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