Police nabs copper thieves

[rpm]

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/General/3134.html

 

[aadil-old]

how to stop cable theft? Have a shoot on site policy. No seriously, Government really needs to catch a wake up and pass the bill classing copper as ... blah blah I lost interest. See the Carte Blanche story from the past Sunday.

 

[Ricard]

how do you prosecute someone walking down the street with a bag load of copper?

Whats the charge? What proof is that its stolen?

 

[Peon]

Shoot on site, hey the coppers can even practice their team-dm skillz in the process.

*only jokes*

 

[Moederloos]

how do you prosecute someone walking down the street with a bag load of copper?

Whats the charge? What proof is that its stolen?

Usually the dslam dangling off the one end is a good sign.

 

[risingtide]

how do you prosecute someone walking down the street with a bag load of copper?

Whats the charge? What proof is that its stolen?

Telkom if possible, or the manufacturer, should 'inject' radio isotopes into their copper cable. A law should be passed that only Telkom's cables may have a specific isotope, Neotel another, etc. Proof of theft thereafter will be easy.

 

[quovadis]

Do what first world countries did... they installed fibre. Limited copper required - just from DB board of building/complex into units where copper is necessary. Problem solved.

 

[Gunny]

Do what first world countries did... they installed fibre. Limited copper required - just from DB board of building/complex into units where copper is necessary. Problem solved.

Need copper from dslam. Would be nice if we had a fibre data option.

 

[Moederloos]

Do what first world countries did... they installed fibre. Limited copper required - just from DB board of building/complex into units where copper is necessary. Problem solved.

You forget this is Africa.
All they do is destroy the fibre until it becomes to expensive. Then the copper returns. And then they steal that.

 

[Tns]

aaa this explains why adsl is so expensive?

 

[Leftfoot]

Do what first world countries did... they installed fibre. Limited copper required - just from DB board of building/complex into units where copper is necessary. Problem solved.

...then they just steal it for the Kevlar inner core of those cables, at least thats what they were doing in the '90s. I think some manufactures have stopped using Kevlar nowadays.

 

[-toady-]

...then they just steal it for the Kevlar inner core of those cables, at least thats what they were doing in the '90s. I think some manufactures have stopped using Kevlar nowadays.

Dayem! There goes my Armour of Light Level 233 upgrade!

 

[Tns]

Dayem! There goes my Armour of Light Level 233 upgrade!