Copper being stolen in Los Angelas

[fncceo]

I'm not exactly sure when the big switch to aluminum was or where all the fat old copper still is

Frequently scavengers don't know the difference. They will dig up cables only to find out they are worthless when they try to scrap them. On a project to build a telecommunications data center in Sheffield UK, we had to constantly replace fiber optic cables because the locals thought they were copper. It didn't stop until we put up signs stating the lines had no scrap value.

 

[Correll]

If They Won't Serve Us, They Won't Survive Us

Only because we'd kill the uncivilized on sight.

I'd be happy with deporting them.

 

[JGalt]

I'd be happy with deporting them.

How about we just deport them then kill them? That would send more of a "message" to the others.

 

[toobfreak]

On a project to build a telecommunications data center in Sheffield UK, we had to constantly replace fiber optic cables because the locals thought they were copper. It didn't stop until we put up signs stating the lines had no scrap value.

Telecom cable has the least value--- it is all nothing but 20-ga little wires and a lot of insulation. If you really want to make some money, power generation and distribution is where its at. Both the windings of big generators and the big copper distribution cables carrying power out of substations. The trick is to know where you can steal it without getting fried and by cutting the power off in a location where by the time they trace back to what and where the problem is in the grid, you are long gone.

But fiber optic cable? It is bright yellow and very light, how could anyone mistake it for copper? And fiber optic makes an optical connection where it plugs into the photo-emitter, it does not makes any electrical connection.

But if it is AT&T standard cable made of drawn out glass, at least it has the value of sand; TOSLINK standard plastic cable doesn't even have that.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

This happens in most big blue cities, and some of the smaller ones.

When I lived in California, I put an offer on a house in a small foothill town outside Sacramento. Offer was accepted, and when we came back a few days later, tweakers had broken in and stripped all the copper wiring out of the house and the yard, right up to the service panel.

We backed out of the deal, but the agent called the "police". Know what they said? "Get a dog and some cameras". LOL!

SO glad I left that shithole behind years ago.

Purina Prime Cuts

A man-eating dog would do just fine. Gets rid of the evidence. Otherwise, the Thug-huggers would prosecute you for abusing their own pets.

 

[fncceo]

But fiber optic cable? It is bright yellow and very light, how could anyone mistake it for copper?

Because the people digging it up didn’t know the difference… all they knew was stolen cable = money. They found out later when they tried selling it.

We’re talking about barrow spivs, not electrical engineers.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Because the people digging it up didn’t know the difference… all they knew was stolen cable = money. They found out later when they tried selling it.

We’re talking about barrow spivs, not electrical engineers.

Same with Those Who Hire Invaders

We have to close the places that pay the scumbags for stolen copper. The owners know damn well what's going on.