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to be fair, wearing high-vis does make it easier to CU.
Haha is that a periodic table pun! I'd tell you another periodic table pun but sadly all the good ones argon.
The people taking down power lines wearing hi viz, but putting coils of power line into shopping carts should be a dead giveaway they aren't employees. Doubly so if they are doing it at night.
Maybe the power company needs to have someone collaborate with the police to work out where it happens and then report to the police at any time an odd power outage occurs.
I don't really get the point of it, copper wire can't be worth that much at a scrapper - especially if they're having to go to a dodgy one to make the trade. I guess its a sign of how tough some people are doing it at the moment.
They mention in the article that it's about $10 a kg, and you need a lot of wire to get a kg. And there are groups of people splitting the profits.
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