Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Removing the Dreaded Backyard Cable Box

So I'm planning to attempt to have the neighborhood "Cox Box" removed from my back yard after the cable guy came yesterday to fix an outage. He explained that the rules were simple: the box in my yard services the whole block, if the gate wasn't open and I wasn't home, he was authorized to forcefully open it.

This makes sense. Cable companies now provide telephone access, and these people need their 911. Even more important.. They want their MTV.

So I'm going to try to chronicle my success and failure at this attempt for 2 reasons.
1) As far as I can see it hasn't been documented on the net. Or at least I couldn't find steps to reproduce
2) I'm positive I'll need to recount my story numerous times. This is me putting on the battle armor for what I know will be months, possibly more, of fighting with COX and Fairfax County.

So, hold on tight... here we go:

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