[91180] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Copper thefts in california
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Fri Jul 7 16:58:36 2006
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 14:57:49 -0600 (MDT)
From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0607071636560.22483@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> 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
