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SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on April 14, 2009, 03:59:40 pm ---
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on April 14, 2009, 03:57:21 pm ---Depends on where you live ChadTower. Where I am, thieves resorted to stealing the brass plugs (stops, caps, whatever they're called) for the fire fighter water valves on high rises. The estimated value to a recycler? About 8 cents for each one. They've also taken to stealing the brass rings around the sidewalk lights some buildings have, but those are a bit more involved apparently. They also steal the brass fittings from public toilets.

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Recently?  That all stopped here many months ago.

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Yeah, it was a blurb on the news just last week or late the week before I think. I thought it was always a problem, I've seen them missing on most buildings since last summer. I guess the problem has gotten bad enough for the news to make mention of it.

From what I understand, they're these pipe fittings that fire fighters can attach a hose to and pump water into the building.

BobA:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on April 14, 2009, 02:06:06 pm ---
Metal prices have plunged... maybe 8 months ago but I just don't see someone cutting something that major for scrap.  Nobody is risking their lives anymore for copper.

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The main damage was cuts to fibre optic lines.   This created much more havok then cutting copper lines since the signals are much more concentrated.   There was no copper to salvage from the lines that they cut.

Ed_McCarron:

--- Quote from: BobA on April 15, 2009, 08:44:17 am ---
--- Quote from: ChadTower on April 14, 2009, 02:06:06 pm ---
Metal prices have plunged... maybe 8 months ago but I just don't see someone cutting something that major for scrap.  Nobody is risking their lives anymore for copper.

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The main damage was cuts to fibre optic lines.   This created much more havok then cutting copper lines since the signals are much more concentrated.   There was no copper to salvage from the lines that they cut.


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If it was one location, I'd believe it was people looking for copper.  Most of the fiber I install doesn't look any different from any other black wire, unless you read the printing on it.  Following the 'copper thief' logic, I doubt they know what OFNR means.  In vaults, theres often not even colored innerduct.

Since it was in multiple places, I have to believe it was someone out to cause a communications outage.

RayB:
My thinking was, they cut the cable (maybe in one shot with a big cable cutter), they look and see its not copper, then cut a couple more to find the copper ones. Don't overestimate the intelligence of the people doing this. We're talking dumb of the dumb to be resorting to this.

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