Timeline for Why do phone and cables companies leave their cables behind, and what to do about it?
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| Jun 9, 2021 at 22:43 | history | edited | Raydot | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 8, 2021 at 17:56 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | You've changed the question significantly, except you didn't actually. The right side of that pole has a cableway on it that is coming down the pole. So it could have come down off the pole, and could be crossed with anything. | |
| Jun 8, 2021 at 14:53 | vote | accept | Raydot | ||
| Jun 4, 2021 at 23:21 | history | edited | Raydot | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 27, 2021 at 0:01 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | Oh. In those cases, if it's on your property, it's between you and the easement holder. On other's property, 8th commandment. "Public land" is actually owned by a government agency, you may have a right to use, but do not have a right to take from. E.g. cutting timber off government land without a permit, or helping yourself to a swing set at a public park. Messing with their stuff may involve tortious interference with their contract with an easement holder. | |
| May 26, 2021 at 23:43 | comment | added | Raydot | @Harper-ReinstateMonica in some cases coiled on the ground. | |
| May 26, 2021 at 23:40 | comment | added | Raydot | @PeterGreen right here in Northern California! | |
| May 26, 2021 at 22:10 | comment | added | Peter Green | Where in the world are you? the answers here seem to be assuming a US setup where the power company owns most of the poles and everyone else shares them. | |
| May 26, 2021 at 21:44 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | Draping from the poletop to the ground!? Egads!!! | |
| May 26, 2021 at 21:27 | answer | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | timeline score: 7 | |
| May 26, 2021 at 20:51 | comment | added | Raydot | @Harper-ReinstateMonica in almost every case I've seen the cable is lying on public land. | |
| May 26, 2021 at 20:48 | comment | added | isherwood | You absolutely can touch it if it's on your property. Any contract prohibiting modification is presumably null and void if the cable is no longer in use. | |
| May 26, 2021 at 20:23 | answer | added | manassehkatz-Moving 2 Codidact | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 26, 2021 at 20:19 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | If it doesn't relate to your own utility service, don't mess with it. It does not belong to you. You're welcome to form or join a beautification committee and lobby the utility to do something about it, but that is more of a politics.se question. | |
| May 26, 2021 at 20:12 | answer | added | isherwood | timeline score: 5 | |
| May 26, 2021 at 19:51 | comment | added | Phil Freedenberg | You don't know what it may be connected to, so there is risk in touching it. If it bothers you call the carrier or cable company and tell them there is a hazard situation. | |
| May 26, 2021 at 19:46 | comment | added | crip659 | You can't touch it, but you can ask for it. Think you can only touch it if it is toss(as garbage) onto your land and not attached to anything else. | |
| May 26, 2021 at 19:40 | history | asked | Raydot | CC BY-SA 4.0 |