Re: When life imitates art...
"some builders needed to get a cable out of the way and just snipped through the cat 5..."
Builders (usually "contractors" in Canada and the US) do that kind of thing. The Atlantic City Music Hall contained a huge pipe organ with pneumatic action. Eventually it fell into disuse, but remained intact....until contractors working on renovations simply cut through the bundles of tubes that connected keyboard with pipes.
[I'm paraphrasing this from memory and hope I got it right.]
Biting the hand that feeds IT
