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Post by tedward on Feb 8, 2008 18:56:34 GMT -4
It is happening a lot to the above ground stuff. Unfortunately the disruption is of no concern. At least in the UK.
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Post by scooter on Feb 19, 2008 12:24:27 GMT -4
Interesting. There is an account out there on cable getting pinched for scrap. There's money in them thar deep... The market prices for industrial metals have gone through the roof. Basically because of the appetite of the ever growing Chinese industry. Nice if you're in the recycling business. Theft has gone up too, however. A bronze statue was stolen around here not too long ago. Last summer I was in a hobby shop, which had lost it's air conditioning and was sweltering hot. When I asked, they said the a/c roof units had been pilfered for the copper tubing. The electric company has lost wire spools and such also, for the copper.
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Post by PhantomWolf on Feb 19, 2008 19:21:02 GMT -4
We had a case just a few weeks back where theives had stole a considerable length of LIVE electrical power line for the copper.
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Post by Ginnie on Feb 19, 2008 21:26:05 GMT -4
We had a case just a few weeks back where theives had stole a considerable length of LIVE electrical power line for the copper. Ouch! Yeah, metal is worth money. I remember when I put out on the curb an almost perfectly working stove for anybody to take (it was old and one oven burner didn't work and I didn't want to put any more money into it). The first thing stripped from it was the plug, they're about thirty bucks to buy. Then the burners. Over the next few days it slowly turned into a skeleton of its former self. I remember putting out an old wheelbarrow with a busted up wheel assembly thing (not the wheel itself). It dissapeared after two days. Anything metal I put out is taken usually during the night by guys driving around in pickups or during the day by guys on rikkaty bikes with multilple baskets attached to it. I've put out furniture that I'm sure would never, ever be wanted by anyone and have it disapear. I'm talking furniture that was used when I got it, plus I have two cats. You do know what they do to furniture don't you? That's why we don't buy new furniture - the cats claw at them so much they're ripped to shreds. It's too late to train the cats and I love them so I have to live with it. ;D
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Post by Ian Pearse on Feb 20, 2008 13:56:11 GMT -4
We had a case just a few weeks back where theives had stole a considerable length of LIVE electrical power line for the copper. Several people in the UK have been killed or seriously injured trying to get copper from domestic substations and high-power cables. Some people seem to think that a good pair of gardening gloves is enough to counter 25Kv of voltage... Signal cables have also been stolen from railway lines, causing chaos.
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Post by nomuse on Feb 21, 2008 16:26:07 GMT -4
Some of the above cases have made it into the Darwin Awards list.
But this is ignoring the much more entertaining conspiracy theory that came out after the cable breaks; that the cables were in fact stretched to the breaking point by the Expanding Earth!
Godlike Productions is such a fun place to visit.
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Post by tedward on Feb 22, 2008 5:37:50 GMT -4
No invasions or dodgy under hand mischief as a result of the 5-4-3-2-1 (delete as necessary) cables having an accident?
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Post by PhantomWolf on Apr 15, 2008 21:02:02 GMT -4
So, updating the OP. In a most unlikely twist to this saga, using satelite images of the area, two cargo ships have been impounded and the owners charged for the damage to the cables. DOH!
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