On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Sean Donelan wrote:
In addition to the traditional backhoe threat, as the price of copper increased so has the threat of people stealing telephone trunk cables containing copper wire.
Yup. One of the most recent San Bernardino County thefts was right here in the Victor Valley... about 25 minutes west of my house IIRC.
Since Jan. 1, there have been 148 reports of copper wire theft in San Bernardino County, said sheriff's spokeswoman Jodi Miller.
Given the sheer size of San Bernardino County (it's the largest county in the US - about 2 1/2 hours from eastern border to western border, and at least that far from north to south) - as well as the fact that much of the county consists of uninhabited desert areas - I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often here. -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows Apple Valley, California PGP:0xE3AE35ED It's all fun and games until someone starts a bonfire in the living room.