Even when it’s fully installed, people will try to steal the copper cables. In the power industry it’s a real problem with people removing the earthing, not always noticeable right away, but then it’s not safe to work on anymore.
Comment on this is exactly what copper would say
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
How bad is your neighborhood that you have to label cable spools to prevent material theft???
Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
gaiussabinus@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
File this under frequently found dead. Substations get hit like this and then the guy dies walking away
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
It’s a really common thing in construction yards.
highlow@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
True. Construction sites helped me build lots of bike and skateboard ramps in the 80s.
Did you know they also used to leave keys in the heavy equipment?
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
used to
Hah r-right
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
yup! now everything is operated by, well, me, because i have all the keys
Macallan@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
You can buy a set of keys on Amazon that will run almost any piece of equipment found on a construction site for like $15.
gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Here in Germany, they’re literally stealing the overhead lines off of the train tracks.
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
At one of my prior jobs (Chicos FAS,Ft Myers, FL) a maintenance guy got fired when they caught him stealing cables for copper about 10 years ago.
CtrlAltDyeet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
The entire continent of africa
bstix@feddit.dk 5 weeks ago
Thieves don’t care if it’s a nice neighborhood. It happens on building sites everywhere. They don’t mind driving a long way.
silasmariner@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
But how much copper they gotta steal to pay for driving out to it? I need to check the price of copper.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
If they were good at math, they wouldn’t be thieves.
WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
What??? You realize very smart people become criminals. The crime world is basically the same as the mainstream. And all of it intertwines anyway, street crime and mainstream unethical things.
A person literally has the option And the same drive someone puts into a PhD can be put into being criminal.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
meanwhile here they left a massive spool of obvious copper laying on the ground with nothing protecting it whatsoever, and it remained completely untouched for like a week