Greg,
Supposedly that is exactly what they did. The thief's just rolled the spools to the end of the floor and dropped them down the 3 stories.
A long time ago I was going to get a job working on the railroad (RR) around here. They were upgrading the electric lines from 13KV DC to 33KV AC. My dad talked me out of it because the RR that we worked for was being bought out by a bigger conglomerate. Anyway, those over head bare wires look good to a copper thief. They better hope and pray that they know it is off before they cut them. I have seen several pictures where a thief thought the power was off. He turned into a crispy critter.
