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They then turned their attention to the power grid where they stole the copper cable and transformers to get 2 gallons of cooking oil to sell to the street vendors to fry their foods in. The oil was both poisonous and cancerous.
Nothing justifies theft. It just makes theft more profitable, until they get caught. Copper thieves have been around for decades.
It’s almost impossible. I had someone attempt to steal our electric service entrance cable. They cut the copper wires while hot. It blew up in the thief’s face. The police checked the hospital burn wards but never caught the thief.
What are the negative effects of cable thefts on Malaysian train lines due to the soaring price of copper?
When apartheid ended in South Africa and Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress took over government the Negroes robbed all of Johannesburg and destroyed all of the farms by stripping down the farm equipment and selling it for spare parts and scrap metal and after that they dug up the copper irrigation pipe and sold it to the Chinese.
They then turned their attention to the power grid where they stole the copper cable and transformers to get 2 gallons of cooking oil to sell to the street vendors to fry their foods in. The oil was both poisonous and cancerous.
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Do you think the rising demand for copper from electrification and data-centre projects justify the cable thieves’ actions in Malaysia?
What role can local communities around these windfarms play in preventing copper cable theft?
What are the effects or impacts on the production in copper cables theft?
What effect will the US’s tariffs on copper have on China’s copper prices?
If a cable is specified as 7/20 copper, what wires does it consist of?
What would be the impact if copper gets to four times the aluminum price?