Copper thefts in california

Fri Jul 7 20:57:49 UTC 2006

> In addition to the traditional backhoe threat, as the price of copper
> increased so has the threat of people stealing telephone trunk cables
> containing copper wire.

Someone fried themselves a couple of months ago in a Vancouver suburb, 
trying to steal a chunk of (live) power cable.

http://www.canada.com/globaltv/bc/news/story.html?id=23300fcd-ae18-48dc-bef1-43935f702213&k=99395

--lyndon