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Apr

Sign of the times.

Posted by MGK  Published in This Is Not A Photoblog

(This, incidentally, is not a poor neighbourhood.)

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Galamb_borong said on April 27th, 2008 at 10:15 am

Sorry to have to ask this… but could someone explain the significance of this to me? Copper or fiber what? ( The only thing my mind could come up with was trumpet mutes, which I doubt is what I’m looking at. )

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Aardy R. DeVarque said on April 27th, 2008 at 10:20 am

Copper has gotten so valuable/expensive that people are stealing it left and right (including large rolls of cable like is stored inside the plywood in this picture) to sell for scrap/recycling.

I’ve heard many stories in the last few months of people caught stealing copper gutters off of old buildings, breaking into buildings to rip wire out of the basement, etc.

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Dane said on April 27th, 2008 at 11:45 am

I’m gonna steal some anyway.

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K.M. said on April 27th, 2008 at 11:46 am

Erm…Why leave a sign saying that it’s fiber and then cover the sides? If it needs to be kept dry, then why not put it inside? o.O
But as I’m not in construction…

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Dayv said on April 27th, 2008 at 1:22 pm

OK, people, here’s the deal:

They’re telling people that the cabling doesn’t contain copper, and thus is not worth stealing.

There’s no value in a gigantic roll of optical fiber cabling to anyone who is *not* involved in the construction and physical repair side of the telecommunications industry.

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jbq said on April 27th, 2008 at 5:17 pm

I guess they’re afraid Bubbles or Dukwan will come through!

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Jon H said on April 27th, 2008 at 6:11 pm

“Erm…Why leave a sign saying that it’s fiber and then cover the sides? If it needs to be kept dry, then why not put it inside? o.O
But as I’m not in construction…”

Possibly because fiber is made of glass, and is relatively fragile (compared to wire), so they want to protect it from accidental impacts ( or to make it a little less likely that people will mess with it out of boredom (because they’d have to move the boards).

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Aulayan said on April 27th, 2008 at 6:46 pm

Ah yes, the price of copper.

The reason I haven’t gotten a timely raise recently. … Hm…we have huge reels of copper wire at work and sometimes I’m the last one to leave….

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k.M. said on April 28th, 2008 at 12:33 pm

Thanks Jon H!

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shannon said on April 28th, 2008 at 12:41 pm

It took me several comments to get it. I read “fiber” and went to a totally different place.

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Cookie McCool said on April 28th, 2008 at 7:52 pm

But the spool will still be stolen to make a kick-ass coffee table to go right next to the post-modern plywood/cinderblock entertainment system.

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konshuss said on April 29th, 2008 at 8:24 pm

stealing copper is for hobos.

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