{"id":30782,"date":"2022-04-21T10:58:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T09:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=30782"},"modified":"2022-04-21T11:02:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T10:02:04","slug":"engineers-nightmare-as-wasps-find-home-in-openreach-socket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/04\/engineers-nightmare-as-wasps-find-home-in-openreach-socket.html","title":{"rendered":"Engineers Nightmare as Wasps Find Home in Openreach Socket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a>&#8217;s senior UK broadband and phone engineers, Amjed, recently got the shock of his life while making repairs at a property in Glasgow. Upon removing one of the operator&#8217;s copper phone extension sockets from a wall, he came across a wasp&#8217;s nest. We assume he must have been investigating a buzzing sound on the line \ud83d\ude42 .<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, engineers do sometimes find a sting in the tail with their jobs, and indeed it&#8217;s not the first time that flying stingy things (i.e. insects, not politicians, but there are similarities) have become a cause for concern in the telecoms sector. Last year the operator&#8217;s engineers in West Cornwall (England) were left buzzing (sorry) after opening the door of a PCP street cabinet to find a hive of busy Bees occupying it (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/07\/beedsl-swarm-of-bees-finds-home-in-openreach-uk-cabinet.html\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>However, most people would probably agree that Bees aren&#8217;t nearly as annoying Wasps. The latter tend to adopt a similar behaviour to your average drunken teenagers on a Friday night, albeit with distinctly less vomiting and a lot more stinging. Wasps are, generally, absolute buggers.<\/p>\n<p>Now admittedly, Wasps do tend to snack on other pest insects (good), produce powerful antibiotics in their venom (also good) and pollinate plants (good again), but we only wish they could do all that without being such total gits about it. Let\u2019s face it, at one time or another, most of us have probably had the &#8216;chased around the garden while wildly flailing arms&#8217; experience &#8211; probably quite a few times. It&#8217;s practically a national pass time.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, Amjed wisely beat a hasty retreat and called in some professionals to tackle the problem. As we understand it, the wasps were then &#8220;<em>taken care of<\/em>&#8221; and &#8220;<em>safely removed from the property<\/em>&#8220;. We assume that translates to mercilessly eradicated and later committed to a suitable fire. 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