A stray bullet cut through a Spectrum fiber line on Friday, knocking an undisclosed number of Texans offline.

ISP Spectrum told customers in the Dallas-Fort Worth area that services were down in a post on X, which judging from the comments from customers isn't an unusual occurrence. Charter, which owns Spectrum, has confirmed that a bullet was responsible and sliced through a key data cable that serviced the area.

"The outage stemmed from a fiber optic cable that was damaged by a stray bullet," a spokesperson told The Register on Wednesday. "Our teams worked quickly to make the necessary repairs and get customers back online. We apologize for the inconvenience."

Charter declined to provide the number of customers who lost internet. However, according to the Dallas Morning News , outage

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