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.

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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