6 Sep
2011
6 Sep
'11
1:41 a.m.
On 05/09/11 5:24 PM, Pete Turnbull wrote:
On 05/09/2011 19:13, Dave McGuire wrote:
I expect that soon enough we will begin to see fewer metal fixtures and
parts in easily-accessible public installations. & fewer extravagances
like the great big sheet of (apparently) copper that lines the elevator
in this 60s-era apartment building. Not only public sculpture parks are
running scared after the awful Henry Moore theft.
Things will change.
--Toby
On 09/05/2011 12:39 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
The academic and telecomms communities in the UK have plenty of
instances of fibre optic links suddenly going down, and the repair crews
finding someone has ripped up "the wires" to sell for scrap.
Of course. But the rise in commodities prices
driven by China (copper is
a good example) is real, and changes people's behaviour. Theft of copper
and other metals is more commonplace than it was. People get
electrocuted frequently while trying to steal live wires.
Good riddance, and thank you Mr. Darwin.
In Florida, it has become common for one to be sitting in one's
living room and suddenly notice it's getting warm in the house. You
go outside and find that some street urchin has made off with the
copper coils in the condenser unit of your air conditioner.