In addition to the traditional backhoe threat, as the price of copper increased so has the threat of people stealing telephone trunk cables containing copper wire.
Someone fried themselves a couple of months ago in a Vancouver suburb, trying to steal a chunk of (live) power cable.
http://www.canada.com/globaltv/bc/news/story.html?id=23300fcd-ae18-48dc-bef1-43935f702213&k=99395 --lyndon
