Comcast fucked me again

I didn’t think it was possible, as I haven’t been a Comcast customer in more than five years, but they’ve done it again.

As I sat down to watch a little TV this evening, my DirecTiVo told me that it’s lost the satellite signal. It was a little windy last night, so I figured maybe the dish got blown a little off axis and I’d have to make an adjustment. I’m really glad I checked the basement wiring area before I dangled my ass over the 30 foot drop you have to go over in order to reach our roof.

Apparently, during the day today my new neighbors had Comcast come hook up their cable service. Interestingly, despite the fact that the wires going to each unit are clearly labeled with the apartment number, the Comcast guy took it on himself to disconnect the lines from my dish to my home and remove my $300 multiswitch.

Admittedly, it’s possible that my neighbors are just trying to steal cable and are really, really bad at it. They don’t seem like the types to steal random bits of hardware though. I usually reserve that kind of maliciousness for faceless multinational telecommunications corporations.

The worst part is that it was Survivor night. Assholes.

Edit: Part 2 is here.