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[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 78 points 1 week ago (7 children)

How bad is your neighborhood that you have to label cable spools to prevent material theft???

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 97 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If they were good at math, they wouldn't be thieves.

[–] WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

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.

The same drive someone puts into a PhD can be put into being criminal. Fact is successful criminals don't get caught. Some of them even become presidents, military personnel, cops, and politicians...

Start with crime, build money and get then ease into legal life. Shitty pop rappers for example. ...a sloppy example of people that don't do it well.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Thievery isn't the only crime. It's not even particularly lucrative. It's mostly done by desperate people who don't know better or independently wealthy thrill seekers who don't care about the take.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

That’s true, but aren’t financial crimes or organized crimes are where the smarter people are? Stealing raw materials to sell at shady recyclers is low bar moron crime.

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Commodities tend to hold value pretty well, especially in poorer areas/nations, and if the operation is decentralized, the risks for the organizers is near zero.

If something is able to be easily taken with a plausible disguise or with low risk (the ol' hard hat, safety vest and clipboard "security pass", or just an unguarded jobsite) there will be opportunists.

For someone with greater skills, that's low hanging fruit that's not worth the risk of getting caught on camera, but the more desperate you are, the more risk you're willing to accept.

Of course, taking cable in the first place is a dick move and will negatively impact the local area and utilities as a whole, so it's a slap in the face for the entire community tbh. Some people don't care though...

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Yeah, but the real money is in the price fixing and crony contracts from bribed city planners.

[–] Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] gaiussabinus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

File this under frequently found dead. Substations get hit like this and then the guy dies walking away

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's a really common thing in construction yards.

[–] highlow@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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 13 points 1 week ago

used to

Hah r-right

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

yup! now everything is operated by, well, me, because i have all the keys

[–] Macallan@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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.

https://www.amazon.com/Equipment-Construction-Caterpillar-AT195302-Takeuchi/dp/B0F7LG3FTV

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 days ago

Don't even need to do that. No immobilizer, you can just LPL the situation or hotwire.

But thats not as much fun

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago

Here in Germany, they're literally stealing the overhead lines off of the train tracks.

[–] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days 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 0 points 6 days ago

The entire continent of africa