Boy, with a title like that, this story could really go anywhere, couldn’t it? 

Truth is, the story is just about perfectly described by that title.  Somewhere in Cleveland, sometime on Monday, there was a major internet outage that affected users over a wide area.  It’s easy to think someone might have hacked something, right?  Or that there was a power outage in some vital facility.  But it was actually gunplay; very intentional gunplay. 

From the looks of it, someone fired a gun or a shotgun directly through some pretty important fiber optic cabling. 

Information is still being gathered by authorities and the service providers, and there doesn’t appear to be any suspects at this time.  Now, certainly there would seem to be plenty of better methods one might use to try and cause a major internet outage.  But until we know more details, all we can really say is that somebody with a gun was not happy with this particular section of fiber cable, and decided to teach it a lesson. 

Just keep this in mind the next time your ISP tells you that your internet outage isn’t their fault.