There was a YUGE backbone outage near Los Angeles, CA that affected the entire world. Some idiot cut pre-existing fiber optic cable. Betcha the asshole was an untrained illegal alien "trying" to do a job in the most expedious way.
I am confident that an illegal alien was told to dig up the cable because of some minor nuisance, so as untrained illegal aliens they used their shovel to perform the job in a most expedious manner.