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Our local papers both ran a story this week about how lots of sections of the freeways are going dark. There is a camera system set up at all the freeway overpasses and what they saw was sort of astounding. The thieves wore orange safety gear, hardhats, etc, drove trucks that look similar to city maintenance vehicles with an amber stobe on top, and did the dirty work in broad daylight. Still have not been caught or Identified by the detectives.
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A few years ago, one of the sound companies in the region had one of their trucks stolen out of their lot.. fully loaded with gear and cable.
the thieves got caught when they tried to recycle the cable.. the recycling company got suspicious of all this nice clean connectorized SO and SJO cable, in nice furniture grade road cases with the company logo on them..
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It's been going on for years. I remember in the late 1970s sitting on the train outside Harpenden for about an hour once (a main line a little way north of London) as the railway was having signaling troubles.
Apparently somebody had slipped up to the junction one night with cutters and made off with a large quantity of the signaling cables.
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Jersey guys, copper termites, are targeting the small stuff now! Copper wiring reported taken
SOUTH AMBOY: Some $2,000 worth of copper wiring was reported stolen from a Route 35 South construction site, police said.
The incident occurred early Friday morning.
Police said six spools of copper wire — two red, two black, two blue — were taken from a building on the site.
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There is a legal term referred to as "attractive nuisance". This has been the basis for suing property owners where kids have drowned in pools that didn't fences around them, etc. I wonder how long it will be before a POCO gets sued because all that copper in a substation could be construed as an "attractive nuisance" for a copper thief.
Heck, crazier things have happened... it's the 1st "anniversary" of Hurricane Katrina, and look at how all the looting and mayhem was "justified" because they we're "hungry" or some other excuse... like they could really eat those plazma TV's and DVD players (couldn't even use them, since there was no power). So if people are "hungry" or "oppressed" enough, copper theft can easily be justified -- even if the rest of us have to sit in the dark.
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(submitted by KCstudent) Pole end of stolen conductors: Bus entrance end of stolen conductors: Picture of the whole run:
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OOPs!
I posted pix in wrong Copper Theft thread. They've now also been posted in the other thread.
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Some of them are just bound to end this way... about 15 years ago, we were renovating a theater and our EC had just replaced the service conductors in the back of the building (a run of about 50 feet), then called for inpection and had the POCO energize them (due to the problems with copper theft back then). Later on that same night, the POCO was called out for a "no lights" call in the building adjacent to the theater. When they arrived, they found part of our new service conductors laying on the ground, along with the carcass of a thief, sporting nasty third degree burns to both arms and legs.
The thefts slowed down for a little while after the story went to the newspaper. This brain trust had been known all too well by local law enforcement.
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