Yeah.
in the Ukraine the mafia stole whole bridges and sold them for scrap! Amazing!
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/04/stealing_commod.html
And not only there, in just the last month on our island (!) 140 km (!) of copper wiring were simply torn from the lamp poles, leaving an overall damage of more than 570k Euros behind for a profit of maybe 15k for the (minly Ukrainian/Rumainan) thieves. Apart from this, every month we have about 5 villages average of our 200 total completely without electicity for 2 weeks for such attacks (they simply open a lamp ppost, attch a cable to the wires to a 4x4 and pull, devastating all the elctrical installations in the process... You ever lived 2 weeks without current in a household with fridge, ice, water pumps, TV and internet?).
In Madrid (the capital!) it was 1000 km cable last 10 month, it sells to CHina, for 7 Euros (10$) a kilo, now with the Chile earthquake and the destruction in mines (Chile covers 20% of the planets copper) it is expected to rise to 15 Euros (22$) the kilo, prepare youselves...:
http://translate.google.com/transla...ticia/165608/0/robo/cobre/Madrid/&sl=es&tl=en
I fully agree with the analysis of the author, but also have no clue how to deal with those guys. Shoot to kill? For some cable?
Here necessesity often is the reason (the crime was unknown before crisis), we now have reached 40% unemployment and no social security to fend off the problems for the whole families w/o income, and if I have to feed my family or pay the rent, well I probably would do a lot also (but more clever of cause, and with more profit, w/o endangering others
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Rattler
