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22-08-2012, 09:15 PM
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-08-2...-thief/4215404
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In Brisbane a few weeks ago i recall that 3 or 4 train stations were closed due to theft of cables... In Townsville a few months ago several large cable reels were stolen from NORQEBs yard. Been reading articles nearly every few weeks of people who are risking electrocution by cutting LIVE wires and stealing cables... stupidy knows no bounds!
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22-08-2012, 09:19 PM
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That's a very shocking story. You would have to be a bright spark to ignore the signs
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22-08-2012, 09:37 PM
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Positively shocking, I don't know watt they were thinking.
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22-08-2012, 09:43 PM
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This is a rather serious set of circumstances. Sad part about it is that they may very well be endangering lives OTHER than their own.
All for the sake of a few bucks at the scrap metal yard. :( |
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22-08-2012, 09:43 PM
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i have seen pictures of a guy after he had tried to steal live high voltage cable - didn't end well for him.
as for entering a live electrical substation - for untrained people i would think the humming/buzzing of the transformers would be enough to put them off. i would think that the money to be made wouldn't outweigh the risks involved, much easier to get a job. and you also need a dodgy person at a scrap metal place to sell to, as far as i know anything over $100 needs an ABN and probably a good reason as to how you have acquired the copper. we did a job recently that involved fairly heavy/thick copper cable, while the cable was layed out on the ground waiting to get run up a pole there was security on site 24/7. would have been cold and lonely sitting on the side of a highway in the dark in the middle of winter just looking at a cable.
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22-08-2012, 09:52 PM
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^ha ha
"sitting on the side of a highway in the dark in the middle of winter just looking at a cable" ................and I thought my job was rubbish! |
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22-08-2012, 09:57 PM
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22-08-2012, 10:24 PM
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22-08-2012, 10:54 PM
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Ooh, I wonder if I'll be in Darwin for the award ceremony?
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23-08-2012, 05:27 AM
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whoooor.. check this big lump of copper out.. pass me the spanners... BANG!!!..
 one good thing to come of this.. sight.. sound and smell of this may have put the young apprentice crim off a life of crime.... bbq crim ftw.... |
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23-08-2012, 08:05 AM
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Its become more and more common.....probally up to once a week we get alarms for break in's and what do they steal copper wire..... stupid fool could have killed himself all for some copper wire *Facepalm* some people....
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23-08-2012, 03:12 PM
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Back to the story, obviously the light bulb never went off...
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23-08-2012, 03:58 PM
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Back to the story, obviously the light bulb never went off...[/QUOTE]
light bulb didnt go on ....no cable!! currently the best yet???
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23-08-2012, 03:14 PM
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yeah something like this happened in perth last year
they were pulling down a building and some blokes went in at night and tried to pull the power cables out but they were still live
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23-08-2012, 04:09 PM
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copper cable is worth a fortune, 2 mates "stumbled across" a spool of 30mm HV cable and took it to simsmetal, the bloke said if he dobbed them in theyd be in jail and be banned from every minesite in australia, it was valued at 12K but was happy to offer them 8 so between the 3 of them they got 4 grand each and they could bring copper in at any time, shifty old bastard he was
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