Stolen internet!

Monkey Puzzle · 27 Feb 2008 at 19:24

I was joking. Bad joke admittedly.

"andy" · 27 Feb 2008 at 19:29

they steal gas pipes and stuff out abondoned houses in boro , mate even came home to 2 ****** on his roof stealing the lead .

a penny is actually worth more than a penny if you scrap it !

its china buying all the worlds copper

Monkey Puzzle · 27 Feb 2008 at 19:37

"andy" said:
they steal gas pipes and stuff out abondoned houses in boro , mate even came home to 2 ****** on his roof stealing the lead .

a penny is actually worth more than a penny if you scrap it !

its china buying all the worlds copper

I saw an article on that about a year ago - I think 1p/2ps are worth slightly less than their face value as scrap as they use copper-plated steel now.

[FnG]magnolia · 27 Feb 2008 at 19:38

Without having read the thread, can someone please confirm that the intarweb has not, in fact, been stolen?

Thanks

Energize · 27 Feb 2008 at 19:57

platinum87 said:
why would someone1 steal copper of a roof when there is computers in the labs?

You obviously haven't seen the computers at my school.

milkinc13 · 27 Feb 2008 at 20:02

Stinky said:
hmmmmm where can i find some copper....

police station

i won't stop to collect my coat

ChrisJSY · 27 Feb 2008 at 20:26

If this a family forum why is ******** continued to be allowed linked on this forum?
You keep on looking there and you'll find things you definitely don't want your kids to see.

Meridian · 27 Feb 2008 at 20:31

CliffyG said:
Around 10pm on Sunday my phone line died, thought it was just me and logged a call with BT. Found out the following day that the whole of my village was disconnected. Another phone call to BT and it appears a gang of people climbed into a manhole and stole 5 long lengths of copper from the exchange to the village. They then whacked it on a big van and took it somewhere to sell. This is quite a common occurance apparently as it's happened in quite a few places recently.

Estimated fix date is 3rd march but one women i spoke to said there wasn't even an ETA. Such a pain not having the internet anymore but on the plus side i am watching a load of films / series i'd put off for ages.

Can any passing underboss / don let the others know that this is the reason Jodie hasn't been on.

The same length of cable in Alconbury has been done twice: they waited until BT restored the cable, then dragged the new lot out!

PhillyDee · 27 Feb 2008 at 20:32

The same can be said of google, yahoo, and the internet.

Meridian · 27 Feb 2008 at 20:32

"andy" said:
a penny is actually worth more than a penny if you scrap it !

Which is precisely why they switched to making them out of copper-coated steel about fifteen years ago.....

M

adriandaz · 27 Feb 2008 at 20:40

Meridian said:
The same length of cable in Alconbury has been done twice: they waited until BT restored the cable, then dragged the new lot out!

How long?

Energize · 27 Feb 2008 at 20:40

ChrisJSY said:
If this a family forum why is ******** continued to be allowed linked on this forum?
You keep on looking there and you'll find things you definitely don't want your kids to see.

Kind of a double standard by the moderation team, you can't swear yet you can link to dodgy websites and discuss all manners of things.

Hen_Dawg · 27 Feb 2008 at 21:43

[FnG]magnolia;11190295 said:
Without having read the thread, can someone please confirm that the intarweb has not, in fact, been stolen?

Thanks

There have been reports of parts of the interweb being stolen with clues leading to it being stockpiled in Pakistan

yipyipboo · 27 Feb 2008 at 21:53

I stripped a few hundred metres of unuseable elliptical waveguide from my old work:-

got a few hundred for it

.walls · 27 Feb 2008 at 22:15

Hen_Dawg said:
Someone actually stole your internet man, I feel for you cos that sucks!

It's ok... I made a backup...

Just copy it onto your desktop.

ins0mn1ac · 27 Feb 2008 at 22:29

Was a program about people stealing random things that on not so long ago, it had Piers whats his face in it, the guy who presents them programs that catch dodgy salesmen/builders and the like, the amount of obvious stuff he sold to scrappys for cash in hand was mental. Things such as speed signs, drain lids, directional sign posts etc without even a question raised!

Meridian · 27 Feb 2008 at 22:48

adriandaz said:
How long?

About 200m I believe.

M

Azagoth · 27 Feb 2008 at 22:53

ChrisJSY said:
If this a family forum why is ******** continued to be allowed linked on this forum?
You keep on looking there and you'll find things you definitely don't want your kids to see.

Which begs the question, why would you be looking for dodgy stuff when you're kids are present?

Hell, we may as well just ban the linking to any site on the entire internet, after all if you keep on looking on there you'll find lots more things that you won't want your kids to see! :rolleyes:

R.O.S.S.I · 27 Feb 2008 at 23:12

Azagoth said:
Which begs the question, why would you be looking for dodgy stuff when you're kids are present?

Hell, we may as well just ban the linking to any site on the entire internet, after all if you keep on looking on there you'll find lots more things that you won't want your kids to see!

Do children not browse the forum of their own accord, or do they all do so whilst looking over their parents/guardians shoulders?

crazyDAJT · 28 Feb 2008 at 00:03

i think a few weeks ago (in Nottingham) somebody tried to steel the coper form a live 40,000V AC power line.... :eek:

all they found was a blow torch, a hacksaw, an axe....

and a big pile of ash...

kidding about the last bit, but some idiot relay did try this...