Thieves descended on one northwest Atlanta neighborhood last Friday morning, stealing and huge chunks of copper phone cables. AT&T officials say it happened in the Collier Heights neighborhood along Linkwood Drive, and thousands of customers were affected by the outage.
A team of AT&T techs in bucket trucks high above the ground replaced stolen cable along a 300-foot stretch of busy Linkwood Drive on Monday. The theft left an estimated 2,000-3,000 thousand residential and business customers without phone and internet service.
Concerned residents told FOX 5 it's not the first time this has happened, and some worry opportunistic thieves have preyed on their community.
The loss of service was much more than a nuisance for some who lost their home security monitoring systems when the lines went dead.
AT&T has offered a $3,000 reward in this case. Officials say copper theft is a growing problem for the telecommunications company, with thieves going out of state to sell the metal.
Sunday, May 19 2013 2:00 PM EDT2013-05-19 18:00:39 GMT
President Barack Obama addressed a crowd of soggy graduates and guests at Morehouse College's spring commencement ceremony on Sunday.
President Barack Obama addressed a crowd of soggy graduates and guests at Morehouse College's spring commencement ceremony on Sunday, telling graduates to take the power of their example-- as black men graduating from college-- and use it to improve people's lives.
Sunday, May 19 2013 1:53 PM EDT2013-05-19 17:53:40 GMT
President Barack Obama addressed graduates at Morehouse College's commencement ceremony in Atlanta on Sunday.
President Barack Obama addressed graduates at Morehouse College's commencement ceremony in Atlanta on Sunday, marking the first time a sitting president has made a commencement address in Georgia since 1938. See photos from his visit to Atlanta here!
Saturday, May 18 2013 10:09 PM EDT2013-05-19 02:09:05 GMT
They say you can't win if you don't play, and thousands of people are. The jackpot for Saturday night's Powerball drawing is an estimated $600 million, giving many a bad case of lottery fever.
They say you can't win if you don't play, and thousands of people are. The jackpot for Saturday night's Powerball drawing is an estimated $600 million, giving many a bad case of lottery fever.
