Someone in my area really has it in for anyone who has a virgin media box outside there house. Other providers boxes don't get vandalised. It's very curious what kind of character is out there doing this.

by lowsunwest

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  2. That damp treatment has been injected incorrectly.

    The holes and plugs are in the centre of the bricks, but the treatment is meant to go in the mortar line, typically one or two courses above the DPC/blue-bricks line

  6. Probably easier than trying to cancel your service with them.

  10. I was with virgin years ago as a student but haven’t been able to get it until now. Best isp I’ve ever had and I’ve had lots over the years.

  13. I found it really easy to leave them. They called and asked if there was anything they could do to compete and I told them the truth – that I was moving to Community Fibre which was twice as fast (1gb), and £40 a months LESS than VM were charging. They cut it off there and then.

  14. It’s all a ploy by Big Virgin to sell more boxes, I tell ya!

  15. I like to believe there is a small Christmas Elf that works for Openreach that’s just going around destroying Virgin Media boxes.

  16. It’s really really common. Drunk people/kids/dickheads I’m generally just kick them as they walk down the street.

    However when I worked for VM the old school techs kept a black book of shitty customers to go cut off around Christmas time.

  19. They absolutely would not let me leave even though I was out of contract – was moving out – going abroad and those fuggers would just not cancel my contract. Absolute nightmare – bouncing around call centres in India for days – emails – messages saying I couldn’t leave because I had to tell them the address of the house I was moving to etc demanding I return the 3 year old router or they charge me x zillion £ etc etc absolute swines.
    NEVER EVER USE VIRGIN EVER. EVER !!!

  20. Kids where I live over the years have accidentally hit them with bikes, footballs, etc. The funny thing is mine is the only one which is still standing since 1995 because the drainage pipe right next to it makes it virtually impossible to accidentally hit.
    Edit: forgot it’s still got the original diamond cable branding, it’s been over taken twice since NTL and now VM.

  22. Good, Virgin are scummy, they will happly cut your internet then send you a bill 2 weeks later for £200

  23. Other side of that coin is I’ve got BB from them (ex-blueyonder, they originally installed the line/box on the property before VM took it over) and its actually fine, been down less times than the years I’ve had it.. so I would be annoyed if some twat did that and jinxed it

    I’ve seen no end of nearby properties having it put in and having problems with it though, even the new build right next door.. which is odd. I just put it down to a testement to how awesome BY/telewest were

    That said BB is the only thing we get, television isn’t worth it

  24. I’ve often wondered what has stopped the annoying people in our society from just walking around breaking these things.

    BT, CityFibre, Virgin all leave publically exposed wiring and boxes like this around the place. If I wanted I could go out with some cable snips and bring down the entire area of renfewshire in the span of a couple of hours, and to my knowledge it isn’t an easy fix either because they need to get someone to come out and fix the cables or run an entire new line.

    And that’s not to mention people petrol bomb the cabinets sometime. I remember BT posting a picture like please don’t do this and it was a completely fire stricken cabinet.

  25. From my experience with Virgin, this is probably the result of them sending an engineer out to fix something 

  26. We had this as well, but thought it was the wind. Is it actually vandalism?

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