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Or a caught-in-the-act copper thief? Those were common in an area I used to live.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:
That looks like phone. It's only really energized during calls. Metal Geir Skogul posted:Or a caught-in-the-act copper thief? Those were common in an area I used to live. Phone wires are super thin, like 24 gauge. That's a lot of trouble for not much copper. kid sinister fucked around with this message at 19:55 on May 28, 2018 |
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Phanatic posted:My brother (who sent me the photo) just said “olde Kensington.” I’m not really sure what the border is between that and just, you know, Kensington.” They ran out of properties in Fishtown and Northern Liberties and are looking for new areas to gentrify. It's just branding.
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May 28, 2018 19:53
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kid sinister posted:Phone wires are super thin, like 24 gauge. That's a lot of trouble for not much copper. Never underestimate a meth-head's love of copper wire.
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May 28, 2018 19:58
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kid sinister posted:That looks like phone. It's only really energized during calls. I have personally caught methheads stealing phone wire. Doesn't have to make sense when you're on drugs.
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May 28, 2018 19:58
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:I have personally caught methheads stealing phone wire. Or when you’re not on drugs, but REALLY loving WANT TO BE.
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May 28, 2018 21:20
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE63-Hw9yeY
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May 28, 2018 21:23
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Can someone repost the truck_garage_ass_cutout.jpg
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May 29, 2018 04:31
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  Album of an extremely poorly constructed kitchen
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May 29, 2018 08:24
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kid sinister posted:Phone wires are super thin, like 24 gauge. That's a lot of trouble for not much copper. Copper thieves are not known for their planning abilities.
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Liquid Communism posted:Copper thieves are not known for their planning abilities. They are known for their alarming lack for foresight and incredible conductivity though! Why yes, those 15kv feeder lines sure do look expensive, better get out the bolt cutters and steal a bunch!
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May 29, 2018 11:49
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I'm frankly amazed at how little has been stolen from my house either during renovation or after. All that gleaming lead still on the bay window roofs. Pallets of cement bags sat out front for months.
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:They are known for their alarming lack for foresight and incredible conductivity though! Why yes, those 15kv feeder lines sure do look expensive, better get out the bolt cutters and steal a bunch! I recall hearing about one in Texas a decade or so ago that ended up a throw pillow because of this. Dude tried to cut a line in a rural area, got arc flashed, and his buddies left him lying in a ditch because they thought he was dead. Electric company found him late the next day, and he ended up losing all four limbs due to lying in a swampy drainage ditch with open burns all night.
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May 29, 2018 12:30
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I took care of a guy with no arms past the deltoids secondary to electrical injury from stealing wire. Not the easiest guy to put an IV in. (Good neck veins, thank God.)
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May 29, 2018 12:38
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In my short ~8 months at the burn center, I've seen two patients that came in from "house fires" with arm and face burns who were later arrested and jailed after treatment because it 1: wasn't their house and 2: was only a fire after they did whatever they were doing (stealing live copper). Both of them had stories of heroics to go with their injuries, but no family to back it up.
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May 29, 2018 13:24
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I live in a rural area and rodents occasionally nest in various phone boxes around the area. One time rodents gnawed through phone wires in a way that my phone was connected in a sense with another phone with a different number. I was able to receive calls made to either number, and if I called a number, it would call from both numbers as well. I called my phone company tech support and had a conversation with two tech support agents at once from the same phone. They could both hear me and I could hear both of them but they couldn't hear each other. It was a pretty weird time.
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Jaded Burnout posted:I'm frankly amazed at how little has been stolen from my house either during renovation or after. All that gleaming lead still on the bay window roofs. Pallets of cement bags sat out front for months. Concrete bags are a terrible store of value. A 60-pound bag costs under five bucks. And if they've been sitting out for months, there's decent odds they've gotten wet, which makes them worth even less!
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Concrete bags are a terrible store of value. A 60-pound bag costs under five bucks. And if they've been sitting out for months, there's decent odds they've gotten wet, which makes them worth even less! Agreed, but as mentioned above, desperate people aren't usually that picky. Or even a nearby neighbour who fancies redoing their garden wall.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Concrete bags are a terrible store of value. A 60-pound bag costs under five bucks. And if they've been sitting out for months, there's decent odds they've gotten wet, which makes them worth even less! But 6 and 2/3 bag will secure a motorcycle.
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May 29, 2018 16:40
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I knew as soon as I posted that that mentioning the weight of the bag was a mistake. 
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Jaded Burnout posted:I'm frankly amazed at how little has been stolen from my house either during renovation or after. All that gleaming lead still on the bay window roofs. Pallets of cement bags sat out front for months. Neighborhoods where your neighbors don't steal your poo poo are the best neighborhoods...
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I knew as soon as I posted that that mentioning the weight of the bag was a mistake. It's never going to go away. Also, I dig your Jack avatar.
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therobit posted:But 6 and 2/3 bag will secure a motorcycle. Less, because most of the added water becomes part of the finished product.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:
Phone/internet demarc so there's a point to access from the ground to the aerial infrastructure. Those were really nice when I did ISP work. There should be a cover on it but being exposed won't really hurt and there's little copper to actually steal.
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Monolith. posted:Phone/internet demarc so there's a point to access from the ground to the aerial infrastructure. Those were really nice when I did ISP work. There should be a cover on it but being exposed won't really hurt and there's little copper to actually steal. Fair enough. The area where I took that isn't exactly Methland, so I guess it's not really a problem. I just saw it and thought of this thread.
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shortspecialbus posted:I called my phone company tech support and had a conversation with two tech support agents at once from the same phone. They could both hear me and I could hear both of them but they couldn't hear each other. It was a pretty weird time. I want to hear more of this story.
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Probably dialed up the 2nd tech using the wrong settings in the internal VOIP system for listen-only conference calls, the type where it's more of a webinar/seminar, where the instructor wants to field questions from each person, but you don't want the people to hear each other, especially in 100+ person clusterfucks.
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Synthbuttrange posted:
 It'd better not, it doesn't go all the way across on the left. Since that's where it appears the car entered from and where daylight is shining from, that's probably where the garage door in the exterior wall was, so that probably was a load bearing wall...
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Synthbuttrange posted:
It's only, like, an 8x12 beam. How important could it be?
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Liquid Communism posted:I recall hearing about one in Texas a decade or so ago that ended up a throw pillow because of this. Dude tried to cut a line in a rural area, got arc flashed, and his buddies left him lying in a ditch because they thought he was dead. Electric company found him late the next day, and he ended up losing all four limbs due to lying in a swampy drainage ditch with open burns all night. A few years ago a factory my employer owns suddenly lost power in part of it, at 3am. Apparently two guys decided to steal some stupidly high voltage copper. This stuff was about 2" thick, needless to say they were very dead when they were located. The arc had burned the hell out of one and the other was dead since the arc had gone though his buddy and into him.
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Could it be HVAC ducting? It almost looks like a grill on the end up against the ceiling there.
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Nah, that's concrete with rebar sticking out of the bottom. I glimpsed a slightly higher res picture on a Brazilian twitter a few days ago. The prefix for the phone is "47," which indicates Santa Catarina. https://twitter.com/ARQuineptos/status/840194517454200837/photo/1 2017
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Well at least when they eventually realize they'll have to prop it up with something, there's a lift right there.
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Don't know the story, but eh it's fine.
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I want to believe that the building was built that way intentionally, like those off-kilter art installations, and someone added the laughably-inadequate props as a joke.
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GreenNight posted:Don't know the story, but eh it's fine. Maybe it's an optical illusion but I don't think those people should be standing there.
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GreenNight posted:Don't know the story, but eh it's fine. The best part would be the people standing to the right. "It's cool, we put some beams there."
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