transcription: orange road sign: FIBER OPTIC CABLE DOES NOT CONTAIN COPPER. tweaker with a bubble and a shovel: "sounds like something a copper cable would say
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“pwetty please stop stealing our cables, we’re too poor to afford security and the police are too busy harassing people for living while black”
meanwhile they were laying cables near me a while back and just… left a massive roll of copper out in the open… and you could clearly see it was copper, too!
Did you take it?
i am unfortunately not strong enough to carry 1000kg of copper
We had a black cable with a box at the end dangling from the utility lines across the street from our house for like six months. The box was suspended like 2 feet off the ground and the neighbors even parked their cars around it.
Anyway, internet goes out one night at 3am, and sure enough, I could hear some bolt cutters on my security camera followed by a person walking in frame to look at our mailbox (which is locked).
Talked to the guy repairing it a few days later and he confirmed it was just fiber.
What a tool.
If it was dangling down for 6mo, why did nobody call the utility company?
That assumes no one did. Utilities in my area don’t give a crap as long as service is still functional.
We had to call and complain about lights dimming for over a year before the power company actually sent someone out to take a look. The guy climbed the pole to look at the transformer and came back white as a ghost. The transformer was right next to a massive nearly dead tree, and he had some sort of bar in his hand and explained that it was supposed to have bumps on it, but it was smooth, melted, and it had been so hot he had to let it cool down before he could remove it. He said it could have exploded at any point, probably taking the entire neighborhood with it given the rural area with a lot of natural desert brush. Said he was glad we kept calling and insisting about the issue.
A box hanging around without affecting service is almost aurely a low priority item.
Wow, that’s fucked up.
In my area when you see something like that, you can call the utilities emergency line and they’ll send someone to fix it immediately. (even for low voltage/fiber data lines, just to stop the calls about it)
Around here, particularly in school; it’s drilled into your head that anything hanging from a powerline is an extreme hazard that needs to be addressed immediately. Maybe it’s dead, maybe it was never ‘live’; It’s up to the utility to determine that. You’re instructed to cordon off the area, keep people away, and call emergency services asap. (preferably their direct line, but 911 will handle it too)
The guy fixing it asked the same thing. I told him to look around the neighborhood. It’s not a fancy neighborhood.
You’re part of the neighbourhood too aren’t you? Why didn’t you call it in?
This says a lot about society
Yes, obviously the poor and desperate should be better educated and know better.
