Copper thefts in california

2006-07-07 Thread Sean Donelan
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. http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_4021500 Since Jan. 1, there have been 148 reports of copper wire theft in San Bernardino Cou

Re: Copper thefts in california

2006-07-07 Thread Mark Boolootian
> 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. Indeed. Here's a story from five years back: [http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2001/03/02_fiber.html} Fiber optic cut

Re: Copper thefts in california

2006-07-07 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
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://ww

Re: Copper thefts in california

2006-07-07 Thread Steve Sobol
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

Re: Copper thefts in california

2006-07-09 Thread Joe Abley
On 7-Jul-2006, at 16:41, 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. At least when this happens in other places there's the prospect of attractive bas