Network Down Due to Acts of Dog

One of the bureaucratic challenges I face in helping an agricultural university get a grant to renovate their computer labs and network infrastructure is in convincing USAID that things are really bad enough to warrant this much work and money.  Fortunately, I can now relate that at the university, the original network cable was laid in such a way that a student attempting to bury a dead dog cut into the cable and interrupted network service to one of the buildings.  This is also possibly the funniest network problem ever.