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

[Aaron Lanterman]

On Nov 20, 2009, at 11:29 PM, Veronica Merryfield wrote:

> 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!

IIRC, one of our most recent buildings, the Klaus building, had a bunch of wire stolen. I think the thieves may have gotten a few hundred dollars worth of cable, but I think the damage they did cost tens of thousands in terms of redoing the cabling that they botched.

- Aaron