Malicious pikey robbing gypos

[UncappedTag]

A recent craze with the price of copper double what it was last year has lead to a rise in opportunists digging cables up out of the ground, tying it to a back of a Transit or simular and proceeding to rip as much cable as possible out of the ground. Trouble is the recent spate in Leeds and yesterday in my neck of the woods has left them penniless as these thick dumbasses living in the dark ages do not realise they are ripping up glass fibres worth.......fk all.

Massive inconveniece for those affected as this is the 2nd time this month I and 1k's of others been minus a broadband connection.

I hear the main issue here is BT laying the cables too shallow making it more of an attractive target.

Anyone else in Beds/Herts affected again?

Edited by UncappedTag on Tuesday 30th March 08:53

[VEX]

Funny.

I've seen the same sort of people working for a cable tv installer in ireland use exactly the same method to install fibre in the first place.

Attach pull cord to cable, attach other end of pull cord to tow hitch of transit and drive off down the road to pull cable through the duct work!

For those that don't know, fibre should be pulled in at a constant pressure to ensure the glass in the fibre is not damaged.

That was the same time that I saw a couple of lads out on a joyride - on one of the site mini diggers!

V.

Edited by VEX on Tuesday 30th March 21:53

[Nickyboy]

You see if Police actually were allowed to patrol they might at least stop some of this happening

[OnTheOverrun]

Nickyboy said:

You see if Police actually were allowed to patrol they might at least stop some of this happening

Too difficult. Far easier to use cameras to prosecute the drivers of properly registered and insured cars.

[cottonfoo]

VEX said:

Attach pull cord to cable, attach other end of pull cord to tow hitch of transit and drive off down the road to pull cable through the duct work!

Really? Most fibre is blown through.

[HOGEPH]

cottonfoo said:

Really? Most fibre is blown through.

Bran Flakes have the same effect on me.

[cottonfoo]

HOGEPH said:

Bran Flakes have the same effect on me.

At least nobody ties a truck to it

[VEX]

Blown is fine for small bundles, but not cable tv stuff, thick heavy jackets and lots of fibres in a bundle.

V.

[dutchgray]

At work we have lost sections of power cables to the pikeys before we could even fully bury them, they would cut it off at the point we stopped work for the night and then drag out as much as they could, most inconvenient.

[ymwoods]

so...where would they sell stuff like this?

[johndoe14]

ymwoods said:

so...where would they sell stuff like this?

scrap dealers

[ymwoods]

but would the Police not be round like a shot after the wire? any amounts of wire matching that stolen and being of similar type would be investigated?

[Hooli]

Didn't you know pikeys are immune to the law? they fight back & poor mr plod might get hurt doing what he is meant to do so they dont bother.

[Elroy Blue]

OnTheOverrun said:

Nickyboy said:

You see if Police actually were allowed to patrol they might at least stop some of this happening

Too difficult. Far easier to use cameras to prosecute the drivers of properly registered and insured cars.

And all the prisoners in our overflowing prisons put themselves there!!

[UncappedTag]

came back on last night, panick over