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Are you serious. It's not a secret that circular saws are effective at cutting things.

it is how they used the circular saw and who taught them?

What is the certain way that was used that makes people think it was a professional? A clean cut is easier to fix that a hacksaw cut, but the technician can always cut off an extra piece to have a clean cut to join. A large missing piece is harder to fix, but even non professionals could think of that. Not sure what else was done to those cables.

Professional will remain professional about their tradecrafts.

Non-professionals continue to get their smarts from dubious sources (like street-creds, or in this case, poor journalism).

It is how our civilization remains propped up and properly so, as now the professionals will have additional headaches to deal with today.

Its well known that if you cut any given cable in two places and remove a section, fixing it is a real PITA.

And if you make a dogs dinner of it, all the better.

Reminds me of the "received knowledge" at school that gangsters tape two Stanley knives together as two parallel cuts can't be stitched.

Never heard of it outside of kids talking about things to sound like they were tough and didn't actually have a nice house and teddy bears.