Stolen internet!

Yeah we had load of steel wire armored cable stolen a few months back. Cost £4k!! You can get £50+ for a old heating tank in your loft if its not in use anymore :p
 
I work for a large scrap metal company, and on the daily news feed I get there's loads at least a dozen stories a day on metal thefts, including at least one church or school having its roof stripped. The problem is if you look at a lump of metal coming into a scrap yard its hard to tell where it came from.

We actually have the contract for BT's scrap wire, so we're probably losing out on this too!

PK!
 
There was a gang caught around here stealing copper cabling and they were wearing stolen BT gear and using an ex-BT Van, so anyone would probably not even think twice about them hauling up a load of cables in broad daylight, must've got away with it for months before some retired old codger from BT noticed the Van they were using was registered in Birmingham and should not have been in North Wales so phoned plod.
 
This is why mainline rail services are so frequently disrupted, as thieves are nicking lengths of cabling at junctions and signal boxes.
I had many a delay due (apparently) to this.
 
Not copper, but lead... my step-dad woke up a few weeks ago to find some scrotes on our roof, nicking the lead flashing from the front of our house :eek:

Cheeky ********!!! :mad:
 
Because you don't have to break into the building to steal it, easier to convert into cash and once sold almost untraceable.

Why would you want to steal computers from a lab when there's copper on the roof?
 
Cliffy, I've got a copy of the internet on some floppy disks, I can post them onto you if you like while you've got no web.
 
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