On Apr 10, 2009, at 2:00 PM, Steven M. Callahan wrote:
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore
<patr...@ianai.net>wrote:
I didn't see a smiley.
And I seriously doubt metal recyclers are going 10 feet down into man
holes, breaking into locked cabinets, cutting _fiber_optic_ cables
(not
copper), and doing it in exactly the right points to cause the most
damage.
But what do I know?
The average copper thief normally isn't intelligent enough to know the
difference between black PVC clad copper and black PVC clad fiber
until they
cut it.
In this area, thousands of feet of fiber has been stolen along with
copper,
or left at the scene when the thieves realized it was not copper
they had
cut out.
Copper thieves will climb into power substations, risking
electrocution, to
steal copper from power companies. So why would they not go down 10
feet
into a manhole to get copper?
Because it's too easy to get copper elsewhere. At least in the SF bay
area. Much, much easier places to get much, much more fiber.
If they stole 1000s of feet of fiber, maybe we could say they were dumb.
--
TTFN,
patrick
