[91181] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Copper thefts in california
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Sobol)
Fri Jul 7 20:09:46 2006
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 20:09:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
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
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.
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