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Looks like they're burying it. The buried stuff does have a small copper locate wire. Or maybe its aluminum? I don't know. Better check
If it's real copper, they have to tell you. It's in the constitution.
How bad is your neighborhood that you have to label cable spools to prevent material theft???
Thieves don't care if it's a nice neighborhood. It happens on building sites everywhere. They don't mind driving a long way.
But how much copper they gotta steal to pay for driving out to it? I need to check the price of copper.
If they were good at math, they wouldn't be thieves.
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.
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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.
File this under frequently found dead. Substations get hit like this and then the guy dies walking away
It's a really common thing in construction yards.
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?
used to
Hah r-right
yup! now everything is operated by, well, me, because i have all the keys
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Here in Germany, they're literally stealing the overhead lines off of the train tracks.
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Bull shit! They don’t lay fiber anywhere that rural and meth looking! It’s copper in disguise! Geet ‘um!
They specifically lay fiber in rural areas, cuz it’s federally subsidized
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Sure this will prevent the meth heads from stealing it, but it will attract a much larger and more dangerous predator - the North American Excavator.
people stealing your shit for scrap is only going to get worse as food prices go up and wages stay slave-y
copper tubing on your a/c, the tailgate off your truck, your catalytic converter-- easy money
If not copper, why copper shaped?
Actually so lame that they have to do this. Cant have shit in Detroit (or wherever this is)
…have you ever been to Detroit? Because that is not what Detroit looks like lol
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If you're a copper, you have to tell me.
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Something something Ea Nasir.
God dammit, I don't have any original thoughts.
We all thought it. ¯\(^_^)/¯
I dunno who is even still stealing copper considering that a lot of yards are asking for proof of ownership before they accept it. Copper-nabbers are opportunistic, and won't take the time to forge an original invoice.
Copper spools have the sheathing stripped off, wire cut to reasonable lengths, then brought to multiple recyclers in stages.
To be sure, the odd idiot will show up with a unadulterated spool and try to get paid, but most that go to the effort of abducting these things off the side of the road aren't entirely stupid.
Then again, a less scrupulous yard might still buy the spool as it comes and strip it themselves.
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Bold of them to assume copper thieves can read.
either i know where that is or they're all like that
Putting my geoguessr to the test-
For sure US, Pine trees, wood fences, trailers, political sign- David Hogan? cant make it out, not St Augustine grass-maybe paspalum?, Barn/stable implies horses or cows maybe.
Im guessing north-central Florida/south Georgia. Sticking the pin somewhere close to Taylor Florida or right on the border of GA.
Sorry, im not trying to dox just having some fun. :P
People: The surveillance state will eliminate privacy!
Rando on the internet: If you wanted your house to be private you shouldn't have had grass.
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Wouldnt fiber optic cable be worth more? 🤔
Yeah, but you wouldn't find a buyer
Time to start an Internet equipment company.
Yeah , but you won't find a buyer , the thing with copper and metals is you can easily sell them off in most cases.
No, check ebay if you don't believe me. It's not exactly plentiful, but there are enough contractors with several hundred/thousand feet left over from big jobs who are selling it for wholesale or less. It's not like you can recycle it, and splicing is unreliable without tools that cost as much as a car, so if you've got a partial spool you need to get rid of you'll probably have to sell it at a loss.
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yeah but no buyer
That is just what someome with a lot of copper would say!
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