Re: Help sought to catch copper signal wire thieves

[mauried@tpg.com.au (Maurie Daly)]

On Mon, 20 Nov 2000 23:41:55 GMT, dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David
Bromage) wrote:

>Police have once appealed for public help to catch thieves stealing copper
>signal wire in the West Wimmera. They say five kilometres of the wire,
>used to relay signals for the rail link between Adelaide and Melbourne was
>stolen from between the Leeor and Fedders Roads near Serviceton on Sunday.
>
>http://www.abc.net.au/news/regionals/westvic/monthly/reghor-21nov2000-2.htm


This sounds a bit dodgy to me .
Removing 5 kms of aerial line along a railway line , between 1AM and
2AM in the morning would take quite a large number of people with
ladders, lighting equipment, vehicles etc.
It would also need people with some knowledge of railway timetables
,so that the theiving could be done when there were no trains around.
Also, what on earth would you do with the wire?
Copper wire is relatively soft,and doesnt make good fencing wire so
its unlikely that its local farmers doing this.

MD