Big Mac

I live in the Hondón area. I had an Iberdrola engineer out today re a power cut. This was caused by the theft of cable near to our home. This theft occurred overnight. I spoke with the engineer and these thefts are currently prevalent in the surrounding area. Apparently the copper sells for between 4 and 5 euros a kilo. Worth keeping an eye out, especially in the more remote areas, for suspicious vans, trucks or cars with trailers and passing on registration numbers. Would say that the service from Iberdrola was very good and power was restored quickly.

Rosemary

Back in the sixties when I was an apprentice any offcuts of hefty cable were kept and we apprentices had the whoopy do job of stripping all of it then taking it to the scrapyard and collecting the cash. We would make about a fiver each. If this happened now we would probably make ten times more than our wages.
It was against company policy but was just thrown away.
Graham

olivetree

It is the metal covers for water meters that have been stolen from close to us.

jurdyr

this is on going problem here and across EU , The theft of electrical and telephone cables are a growing and extremely costly problem in this area of the world , However, now that the larger and more organised criminal elements have entered the market things have taken a nasty turn , that is the death of innocent people in homes and hospitals that rely on having an uninterrupted supply of electricity for life support. Also lives have been lost because of not being able to use the telephone in an emergency.
400 people have been arrested across the UK in may2011 for Copper cable theft
UK railways have been causing train delays and cancellations. East Coast line had prolonged delays on last Friday . It's now known that a medium-voltage cable had been damaged by a hacksaw blade – the second such incident in the area in less than a week .