Meet Hayastan Shakarian, the 75 year old lady (pictured above, with trusty saw) who cut off the interwebs to 2 entire countries the other day. The countries of Georgia and Armenia both lost all information superhighwayness for almost 36 hours when Ms. Shakarian sawed through a fiber optic cable (apparently, a BIG one) in her neverending quest for scrap metal. Whether collecting scrap metal is her occupation or her hobby is never specified. So, America, is she some neo-luddite evil mastermind or basically just another old lady tring her best to use the internet? I guess that's for the courts to decide. She claims innocence based on the fact that she did not know that the internet even existed (probably true). She's been charged with 'damage to property', which in Armenia (where property is taken very seriously) can get you up to 3 years! Here's the sad part: all she did was keep some Armenian assholes from playing World of Warcraft and looking at porn for like a day and a half. Seriously. We're gonna need some FREE HAYASTAN SHAKARIAN t-shirts made up, stat.
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