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| pbj:
Well, son of a ---smurfette---. Time to start smashing all those CRTs I find. |
| Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: dkersten on June 14, 2016, 10:32:07 am ---We have a warehouse in a not so great area of Phoenix and about once a year the phones go down for a couple days because the transients in the neighborhood would break into the phone box across the street and steal the copper.. Prices must be down because it hasn't happened in about 2 years. Or they put a better lock on it... --- End quote --- Amateurs. Around these parts they steal the utility lines. Like miles and miles of it. Sometimes they go into a coal mine and pull out all the copper as well. Somebody dies at least once a year... you'd think they would learn. |
| ChadTower:
Around here it goes in waves. First they hit the churches because the churches are arrogant enough to keep putting out fancy metal fixtures, water spouts, gutters, etc no matter how many times they get stolen. Then they hit all of the empty foreclosed homes. Then they hit the partially constructed homes. One guy even hit the war memorials and stole the bronze plaques. I seriously hope that guy melted the plaques down himself and that no scrapper had the sack to buy them. |
| Howard_Casto:
Heh. I just read an article where copper thiefs are actually expediting the upgrade of utility lines. Even though fiber is much more expensive it's STILL cheaper than replacing the lines every time someone cuts them for the copper. Hitting war memorials is pretty messed up. I'm a proud pacifist but I still understand that people frikkin died in all these wars and we should respect their sacrifice. |
| dkersten:
Can't transmit electricity over fiber optic... Around here all the power is up on poles and all the telecom is buried.. |
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