[sdiy] The price of copper (you couldnt make this up!)

[Kyle Stephens]

Copper theft is but a gateway crime!

"We just thought it was going to deal with all the copper that was being stolen," San Jose police Officer Jermaine Thomas said. "Soon enough it went from copper to guns, then stolen vehicles and then drug transactions."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/23/BAO8UKEPF.DTL

In the interest of being OT, what is/was your gateway into SDIY? My dad taught me how to read schematics when I was a kid, and when I learned that a lot of the industrial acts I was into in high school used analog modulars, and that there were other crazies doing the whole DIY thing...well, here I am today :]


_Kyle

--- On Fri, 11/20/09, Veronica Merryfield <veronica.merryfield at shaw.ca> wrote:

> From: Veronica Merryfield <veronica.merryfield at shaw.ca>
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] The price of copper (you couldnt make this up!)
> To: "synth DIY" <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
> Date: Friday, November 20, 2009, 8:29 PM
> Some idiots round these parts thought
> it would be a good idea to steal the copper from a
> transformer sub-station. They know there was more than one
> since the tire tracks and footprints indicated it, but one
> of them was left, fried.  You just can't make this
> stuff up!
> 
> Copper is stolen regularly here but surprisingly not taken
> the phone of cable lines, but I guess they might.
> 
> Veronica
> 
> On 2009-11-20, at 4:21 PM, Julian wrote:
> 
> > 
> > My ADSL connection has just come back on here, and the
> phone line with it.
> > 
> > Its been off since yesterday, whilst the engineers
> have been replacing the phone lines.
> > 
> > 
> > We're out of town here, and the phone lines are
> overland.  I can hardly believe it but somone actually
> saw fit to *steal* the phone lines to our entire village!
> > 
> > Ive heard of thieves stealing road signs, and lead
> flushing from roofs, but this is the first time ive heard of
> them going for phone lines!
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Fiber optics - i know nothing about them - if the
> phone company fits them, are they going to be tempting to
> thieves also?
> > 
> > 
> > Julian
> > 
> > Yeah, i know its off topic, but....
> > 
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