In article , Tim Watts
scribeth thus
cynic wrote:


Ask the people of Hull when the towrags stole the Substation earthing
copper.
(Of course Karl Turner got in on the act and convinced the REC to
stump up for replacement electrical equipment for the consumers who
couldn't be bothered to insure their possessions)

And so they bloody should.

It may not be the REC's direct fault that pikey's nick the copper, but it is
even less the fault of the customers who are contracted to be provided power
at 230 V +10% 0
The question here is whether the REC could have reasonably done more to
provide redundant earthing in other locations to mitigate such faults (and
if the pikeys did not steal the copper, what would happen if the bonding in
question went faulty of its own accord)?


I rather doubt it was an earthing situation as such, we just don't quite
know what they did there whilst they were nicking the copper they could
have done most anything..

Take copper theft further, can the railways do anything to stop them
nicking the return cables on the OHLE system?..

Or signalling cable going missing?..

Or BT cables coming out of their ducts?...
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Tony Sayer