On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Sean Donelan wrote: > 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.
Yup. One of the most recent San Bernardino County thefts was right here in the Victor Valley... about 25 minutes west of my house IIRC. > Since Jan. 1, there have been 148 reports of copper wire theft in San > Bernardino County, said sheriff's spokeswoman Jodi Miller. Given the sheer size of San Bernardino County (it's the largest county in the US - about 2 1/2 hours from eastern border to western border, and at least that far from north to south) - as well as the fact that much of the county consists of uninhabited desert areas - I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often here. -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows Apple Valley, California PGP:0xE3AE35ED It's all fun and games until someone starts a bonfire in the living room.