[TowerTalk] cable thefts

[JC Smith]

Hey Gene,

Too bad the hoplophobes are in charge back there in DC, you could put one of
those guard shacks out by your garage or tower;-)

73 - JC, K0HPS

PS: I'm not thumbing my nose at you; it's as bad or worse out here in the
PRC.

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Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 11:58 AM
To: WA3GIN @ Arlington County, VA; Craig Clark
Cc: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] cable thefts

TT:

     FWIW - At each of the cellular tower sites we built for the wireless
project in Haiti five years ago, we also constructed a live-in guard shack.
The 24X7 guards were armed with scatter guns to keep folks from robbing the
copper that was otherwise easily accessible off the towers and out of the
ground.  They also protected the diesel fuel that ran the
18-hour-a-day-or-more generators at the sites.

     Around here (DC suburbs), seems that the local hoodlums have taken to
walking into open garages in broad daylight and helping themsleves to
whatever isn't nailed down in folks' garages.

     Used to be (back in the heyday of CB in the 70s) that 2M rigs were
often mistaken for the 11M stuff.  I had two radios pilferred from my car at
the parking lot at work.  Thank God that craze is over with and we can rest
easy, knowing that no one wants our CB radios anymore.

73 de
Gene Smar  AD3F
P.S.  I'm done.
 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "WA3GIN @ Arlington County, VA" <wa3gin at erols.com>
> Here are a few recent thefts:
>
> September 07, Star Beacon (OH) -- Thousands of pounds of copper stolen
> from Plant C.
>
> Ashtabula County Port Authority (ACPA) in Ohio is beefing up it's
> security at power facility
>
> Plant C after 2,000 pounds of copper bus bars were found missing last
> week. The theft of the
>
> copper, used to ground electric wiring in the lower levels of the water
> pumping sections of the
>
> plant, was discovered by FirstEnergy employees on Thursday, August 31,
> said ACPA board
>
> president John Palo. "FirstEnergy supervisors detected they had a poor
> ground on electric lines
>
> 1
>
> inside the plant... a large amount of copper bars were gone," Palo said.
> The missing copper
>
> material is valued at between $5,000 and $6,000 at today's recycling
> price. FirstEnergy and
>
> Palo alerted the county sheriff's office immediately when the theft was
> discovered. This latest
>
> theft may or may not be connected to the August 26 arrest of two
> Geneva-on-the-Lake men
>
> linked to a separate theft incident at another nearby FirstEnergy plant.
>
> Source: http://www.starbeacon.com/local/local_story_249075143
>
>
>
>
>
> September 06, Fayetteville Observer (NC) -- Two more arrested in North
> Carolina for
>
> power line theft. The Moore County, NC Sheriff's Office has arrested two
> more people in
>
> connection with thefts of power lines. Jesse Dee Mabe and Steven Wayne
> Cole each are
>
> accused of stripping about 1,250 feet of neutral power lines from power
> poles. The two are also
>
> accused of breaking into two power substations and destroying three
> transformers. The thefts
>
> caused thousands of dollars in damage to underground power lines,
> according to the Moore
>
> County Sheriff's Office. Detectives began investigating the thefts in
> May after the Randolph
>
> Electric Corporation reported that power lines had been stolen. The
> Moore County Sheriff's
>
> Office believes the thefts are linked to increasing copper prices.
>
> Source: http://www.fayettevillenc.com/article?id=241357
>
>
>
>
>
> September 04, Ironton Tribune (IL) -- Two arrested in theft of copper at
> Buckeye Rural
>
> Electric. Two people in Gallia County, IL, on Monday, September 4, were
> arrested in
>
> 2
>
> connection with the attempted theft of an estimated $1,300 in copper
> from Buckeye Rural
>
> Electric Cooperative's (BREC) Rodney substation. The thieves had it
> loaded in the back of a
>
> pickup truck and were at the truck totaling their haul in a notebook
> when they were arrested,
>
> according to Steve Oden, spokesperson for BREC. The accounts of recent
> thefts in the
>
> three-county region are numerous. Oden said "[Copper thefts have] been a
> real problem in
>
> Gallia, Lawrence, and Meigs counties, probably since June...Copper
> thefts are epidemic right
>
> now." Recently thieves tried to steal copper from the grounding grid
> underneath a power
>
> substation owned by the Guernsey-Muskingum Electric Cooperative. The
> culprits damaged the
>
> substation in the process. "The substation began to malfunction and the
> voltage was so great the
>
> concrete was smoking," said Oden.
>
> Source: http://www.irontontribune.com/articles/2006/09/05/news/news/
> news121.txt
>
>
>
>
>
> Craig Clark wrote:
>
> >My son woke at 2 AM one morning this summer to the sounds of
> >aluminium coax being wrestled with. He yelled and heard kids say
> >"beat it" and the sound of gravel being thrown from a speeding car.
> >
> >We called 911 and two cops responded. They called me up on the hill
> >to find three Al hardline rolls ready to be placed in a vehicle.
> >
> >It can happen to anyone.........even me in rural Rindge
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >73, Craig Clark, K1QX
> >
> >
> >RADIOWARE AND RADIO BOOKSTORE
> >PO  BOX 209
> >RINDGE NH 03461
> >603 899 6957
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> >
> >
> >
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