people stealing your shit for scrap is only going to get worse as food prices go up and wages stay slave-y
copper tubing on your a/c, the tailgate off your truck, your catalytic converter-- easy money
I feel like you could real easily just steel that roll and of fiber optic cable and sell it? Like that much of the stuff must be rather valuable. Also they labelled it for you so that you know what it is
Who would you sell it to? The same telecom company? The same company that installs it? Might as well steel the tires off the installation team truck and sell it back to them.
I think turning someone’s tires to solid steel would be pretty funny
Curse you, autocorrect!
Sell it to who? Most business must keep records of the stuff they use in their books. A roll of optic fiber this large would cost a substantial amount of money, so using one “off the books” would require some creativity. And I’m not sure there’s much use for individuals for that much.
Copper is interesting because there are business that buys it by weight for recycling purposes.
It’s really that valuable, the bulk prices I’ve found on Alibaba are around $25-$30 per KILOMETER!
Fiber optic cable is just glass or nylon, sealed with a thermoplastic. It really is one of the cheapest kinds of cables to make, maybe ever. It’s really not worth anything when anyone who needs to run fiber can just buy a brand new spool for the same price as a spool from four guys in a shitty pickup truck who can’t describe why they even had it to begin with.
Um… What kind of fiber optic?
TOSLINK
i mean, you can do that if you want
That is just what someome with a lot of copper would say!
Actually so lame that they have to do this. Cant have shit in Detroit (or wherever this is)
…have you ever been to Detroit? Because that is not what Detroit looks like lol
Ill just leave that here for you. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cant-have-shit-in-detroit
How bad is your neighborhood that you have to label cable spools to prevent material theft???
At one of my prior jobs (Chicos FAS,Ft Myers, FL) a maintenance guy got fired when they caught him stealing cables for copper about 10 years ago.
It’s a really common thing in construction yards.
True. Construction sites helped me build lots of bike and skateboard ramps in the 80s.
Did you know they also used to leave keys in the heavy equipment?
yup! now everything is operated by, well, me, because i have all the keys
You can buy a set of keys on Amazon that will run almost any piece of equipment found on a construction site for like $15.
https://www.amazon.com/Equipment-Construction-Caterpillar-AT195302-Takeuchi/dp/B0F7LG3FTV
Don’t even need to do that. No immobilizer, you can just LPL the situation or hotwire.
But thats not as much fun
used to
Hah r-right
Even when it’s fully installed, people will try to steal the copper cables. In the power industry it’s a real problem with people removing the earthing, not always noticeable right away, but then it’s not safe to work on anymore.
File this under frequently found dead. Substations get hit like this and then the guy dies walking away
Here in Germany, they’re literally stealing the overhead lines off of the train tracks.
Thieves don’t care if it’s a nice neighborhood. It happens on building sites everywhere. They don’t mind driving a long way.
But how much copper they gotta steal to pay for driving out to it? I need to check the price of copper.
If they were good at math, they wouldn’t be thieves.
What??? You realize very smart people become criminals. The crime world is basically the same as the mainstream. And all of it intertwines anyway, street crime and mainstream unethical things.
The same drive someone puts into a PhD can be put into being criminal. Fact is successful criminals don’t get caught. Some of them even become presidents, military personnel, cops, and politicians…
Start with crime, build money and get then ease into legal life. Shitty pop rappers for example. …a sloppy example of people that don’t do it well.
That’s true, but aren’t financial crimes or organized crimes are where the smarter people are? Stealing raw materials to sell at shady recyclers is low bar moron crime.
Commodities tend to hold value pretty well, especially in poorer areas/nations, and if the operation is decentralized, the risks for the organizers is near zero.
If something is able to be easily taken with a plausible disguise or with low risk (the ol’ hard hat, safety vest and clipboard “security pass”, or just an unguarded jobsite) there will be opportunists.
For someone with greater skills, that’s low hanging fruit that’s not worth the risk of getting caught on camera, but the more desperate you are, the more risk you’re willing to accept.
Of course, taking cable in the first place is a dick move and will negatively impact the local area and utilities as a whole, so it’s a slap in the face for the entire community tbh. Some people don’t care though…
The entire continent of africa
r/trashy
If not copper, why copper shaped?
If it’s real copper, they have to tell you. It’s in the constitution.
If you’re a copper, you have to tell me.
💸
Something something Ea Nasir.
God dammit, I don’t have any original thoughts.
We all thought it. ¯\(^_^)/¯
Thank you, I am now reassured in my DuckDuckGo-fu after looking this up because I don’t watch the Simpsons.
Wouldnt fiber optic cable be worth more? 🤔
Yeah, but you wouldn’t find a buyer
Time to start an Internet equipment company.
Yeah , but you won’t find a buyer , the thing with copper and metals is you can easily sell them off in most cases.
yeah but no buyer
No, check ebay if you don’t believe me. It’s not exactly plentiful, but there are enough contractors with several hundred/thousand feet left over from big jobs who are selling it for wholesale or less. It’s not like you can recycle it, and splicing is unreliable without tools that cost as much as a car, so if you’ve got a partial spool you need to get rid of you’ll probably have to sell it at a loss.
are you saying they wouldn’t find a buyer?
either i know where that is or they’re all like that
Putting my geoguessr to the test-
For sure US, Pine trees, wood fences, trailers, political sign- David Hogan? cant make it out, not St Augustine grass-maybe paspalum?, Barn/stable implies horses or cows maybe.Im guessing north-central Florida/south Georgia. Sticking the pin somewhere close to Taylor Florida or right on the border of GA.
Sorry, im not trying to dox just having some fun. :PPeople: The surveillance state will eliminate privacy!
Rando on the internet: If you wanted your house to be private you shouldn’t have had grass.
Bold of them to assume copper thieves can read.
Looks like they’re burying it. The buried stuff does have a small copper locate wire. Or maybe its aluminum? I don’t know. Better check
Been needing to finish the mancave, even BETTER!
