Copper Thieves Leave I-95 In Palm Beach Co. In The Dark

[papa_smurf]

Its as bad over here in the UK with copper thieves, who steal from anything containing copper: copper pipes used in home heating, signal lines for railways, and most dangerous off all cables taken from electrical substations.

[Stealhead]

In most cases in the US the thieves are drug addicts they target A/C air condensers in particular I think that the scarp yards must be partly to blame for this they surely must know that some of the scrap they are buying is stolen.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by papa_smurf

Its as bad over here in the UK with copper thieves, who steal from anything containing copper: copper pipes used in home heating, signal lines for railways, and most dangerous off all cables taken from electrical substations.

First I experience it was in Iraq, fair enough, but about four months after I got back it was headline news over here! In march this year a 16-year-old boy received 11kV whilst trying to steal some, should happen to more of the theiving <insert nasty word of choice here>.

Electric burns FTW

[ajrimmer42]

Originally Posted by papa_smurf

Its as bad over here in the UK with copper thieves, who steal from anything containing copper: copper pipes used in home heating, signal lines for railways, and most dangerous off all cables taken from electrical substations.

haha, yup we get no end of delays due to copper wire thefts on railways. Idiots. Then again it's always kinda funny when you walk down a path next to a railway, or a canal towpath and there's stripped wire insulation everywhere You just gotta hope that the little scrotes get fried one day whilst doing it