payattention
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Re: Incroyable!
If you read the article again it says they couldn't make a phone call. So they are referring to telephone cabling. |
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CCTVTech
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A commercial building near me had its breaker boxes broke into and and the copper ripped out. |
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N3OGH
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| reply to pnh102
said by pnh102  :said by Derfel :Uh... that's quite a bit of copper. Any idea what the market value of that would be? Probably nothing... how the heck is anyone going to sell that stuff? Plenty of place one could sell it here in the states too.
I recently had some old steel pipe in my basement that I didn't need. I cut it down, and took it to the local scrap yard. They weigh your truck coming in and going out, the difference is how much metal you had. Made about $30 on the deal.
I'm sure they would have to do something to it (strip the insulation, remove any markings) before a scrap yard will take it, though....
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N3OGH
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Philly burbs | reply to Hall
Darwin award nominee...... |
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Hall
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said by N3OGH : Plenty of place one could sell it here in the states too. I recently had some old steel pipe in my basement that I didn't need. I cut it down, and took it to the local scrap yard. They weigh your truck coming in and going out, the difference is how much metal you had. Made about $30 on the deal. I've done the same... As we've re-done different things in the house, I've been saving the "metal". The place I went to didn't take the "steel" I had at all but they did take the lead drain piping and copper tubing. What shocked me was the copper tubing. It was maybe 10 ft of 1/4" (ice maker feed) and I got $6 for that tiny amount. Now I'm not surprised why people are stealing the copper tubing off of AC units !! My neighbor is an HVAC contractor and when he removes an old unit, he'll just put it in the alley next to his trash knowing it will be GONE before morning. |
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Michieru2
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Miami, FL | reply to sapo
I said RCA logo, not plug. But yes they can sell it at the kilo it all depends how they do it. |
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Michieru2
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Miami, FL | reply to payattention
yeah yeah, I heard you bob I made a mistake I should of RTFA. |
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csalazarv
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Costa Rica | reply to pnh102
too bad I dont have the clip but a few months ago a thief was caugh stealing cable from the power lines and the news crew got him at the moment when he got electrocuted and then after a 12 ft fall.............hits the ground |
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Kxpuc
join:2004-05-04
Houston, TX | reply to Kearnstd
meh voltage doesn't kill Amps do |
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elios
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Springfield, MO | reply to Kearnstd
in MD when thay were building the over head for the Lightrail people were stealing the copper
there were a few that even tryed once the over head was energized >.> |
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The Folsom
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said by Hall :said by Kearnstd :notice that nobody steals from the power company... This is about criminals, right ? And most criminals are stupid, right ? I'm looking for the article, but it did happen here in Dayton. Needless to say, after a couple of weeks or a month of certainly extreme pain in the hospital, this guy won't be stealing *anything* anymore... Here's a very brief, and old, story about this incident: Man Shocked By Wire In Dayton In Intensive Care
The man shocked while allegedly trying to steal copper Thursday afternoon is in Intensive Care after getting burned.
Police said 48-year-old Grover Scott took an ax and chopped through a powerline carrying more than 13,000 volts of power.
The electricity burned Scott over 40 percent of his body on Edwin C. Moses Boulevard.
The incident knocked out power to part of the city including Sinclair Community College. »www.whiotv.com/news/9314409/detail.html "Paging Charles Darwin... Charles Darwin, please pick up the 'Buzzing Red Phone in the Intensive Care Unit... Charles Darwin, pick up the 'Buzzing Red Phone in the Intensive Care Unit...' Thank you..."
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dvd536
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said by pnh102 :said by Kearnstd :notice that nobody steals from the power company, too bad the telco cant bump up the voltage. HAHAHAHA I would pay good money to see someone try to steal copper from the power company  Oh i see big spools of this thick copper electrical cable in contruction areas. a guy i know regularly steals this stuff, takes bolt cutters in to cut it. then he strips the rubber insulation off it, recycling yards pay about 2 dollars for a foot of this quality cable. course these thefts are passed on to the homebuyer whos having their houses built.
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dvd536
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| reply to dave
Volts isnt what kills you, its the amperes.
a cops tazer has 50K volts. true it hurts but doesn't do much damage(i think the barbs they shoot hurt more than the current does.
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said by backness :said by pnh102 :said by Derfel :Uh... that's quite a bit of copper. Any idea what the market value of that would be? Probably nothing... how the heck is anyone going to sell that stuff? salvage yard... they pay by the pound or kilo in europe Exactly. And no questions asked, at least it used to be that way. And they take everything, not only metal: paper, clothins, plastic, everything.
It's a more meaningful way to make sure trash doesn't end up somewhere aside the closest interstate exit overnight. When you have a lot of these things you more likely will take it to somewhere you will get some money for it than pay for some "waste management company" to take it away...
I remember when I was a kid there they used to organize weeks when everybody brought all the used papers to the school and then the school got the money. Also I remember few times we found a thrown-away engine part or something similar, very heavy metal piece somewhere and we got some nice bucks (ie movie tickets w/ ice creams for 5 of us or something similar ) for it... |
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Anonymous_
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all u need is a power outage |
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Nanoprobe
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said by Kearnstd :notice that nobody steals from the power company, too bad the telco cant bump up the voltage. You would think nobody would be stupid enough to try and steal from the power companies but a guy was killed here in central Fl. trying to do just that. How quick does 72,000 volts fry you?
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Maggs
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I'd be shocked to see anyone live to see their day in court if they stole copper from the power company 
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Maggs
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Hell, I could have looted Con Ed's copper underground lines for 8 days straight
Walks into bank with $20,000 in cash.... I'd like to make a deposit.
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pnh102
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| reply to Michieru2
said by Michieru2 :How much a bag of 100 connectors would cost you if you bought them from some large supplier? Probably a mere 4euros and you sell each cable at 8euros. I was thinking along the lines of if someone is going to steal the cable, they'd probably steal the connectors as well. Were a thief to buy such parts legitimately can cut into his/her "profit."
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pnh102
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said by Maggs :I'd be shocked to see anyone live to see their day in court if they stole copper from the power company There's one way to get Westinghoused
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