INDIANAPOLIS — A concerned viewer wants a dangerously dangling problem to be wrapped up before someone gets hurt. They're worried about a cable that's hanging down on 52nd Street, near Georgetown Road.
The cable is hanging all the way to the ground. It's just a few feet from the road and across the street from a elementary school, and folks in the area want this dangerous problem wrapped up.
"We’re just concerned now that it’s a safety hazard," Marcellus Martin, an area resident, said. "It’s been leaning coming down for years – it’s pretty heavy."
Martin said the area gets a lot of foot traffic. RTV6 saw a man walk right passed the cable just a few minutes after getting to the area.
"Now that the cable’s on the ground – we’re concerned about children across the street at the school, walkers and so far getting caught up on it," Martin said.
RTV6 started reaching out to the city and local utilities to find out who owns the cable. A spokeswoman for Indianapolis Power and Light told us it's a fiber optic cable. A fiber optic cable is typically used in telecommunications.
Martin says that he and others have tried to call about the cable to figure out who it belongs to.
Laying right next to 52nd Street, Martin fears that weekend drivers could speed by, or worse, kids will pull on it and something will come loose releasing a charge.
RTV6 will keep pressing for answers to find out who's responsible for getting this dangling cable taken care of.
