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Top 10 laughable cable fails: Cabling photos

Jan. 27, 2023

You'll laugh so hard you'll cry, particularly if hit in the head with a low flying OLT or double-wide rack falling off its drywall hinges.

Matt Vincent

You really just have to laugh sometimes at the magnitude, and also paradoxically the weird pettiness, of some the cable fail and cable gore extravaganzas regularly seen in photos posted to Reddit's eponymous subgroups reflecting the uglier, crazier, most careless side of ICT and IT cabling professionals' trade.

You'll laugh so hard you'll cry, particularly if hit in the head with a low flying OLT or double-wide rack falling off its drywall hinges. Here are the top ten whoppers from a recent review of the sites.

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About the Author

Matt Vincent | Senior Editor

Matt Vincent is a B2B technology journalist, editor and content producer with over 15 years of experience, specializing in the full range of media content production and management, as well as SEO and social media engagement best practices, for both Cabling Installation & Maintenance magazine and its website CablingInstall.com. He currently provides trade show, company, executive and field technology trend coverage for the ICT structured cabling, telecommunications networking, data center, IP physical security, and professional AV vertical market segments. Email: [email protected]