On Jan 24, 10:16*am, "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:
In article ,
* *Frank Erskine wrote:

Power cuts can and do happen without cables being nicked. If that power
is essential, backup should be provided.
Hospitals always (?) have standby alternators, but what about, for
example, renal dialysis machines used in private homes? Or all these
type of things battery powered nowadays? Indeed, are such things used
at all now? :-)

If home dialyse - or anything else like that - is such that it must be
carried out at a specific time, it would be sensible to have a standby
source of electricity.

It's not the electricity that is stolen, it's the cable carrying it.
Imagine you go home to find someones ripped out yuor twin and earth
from your CU. having a gernerators to hand won;t sovled all your
problems,
and it takesd time to replace the infra structure, and if there;s any
fried bodies around
someone has to scoop that up too.




Despite all the bile spouted here, you're more likely to have an
'ordinary' power cut than one caused by cable theft.

For the average consumer supply, yes but to be affected by cable
theft....
it goes on more than you think.
http://www.rail.co/2011/11/22/btp-ap...il-disruption/

A friedn that works for socail servicesw had someone turn up with a
'melted foot/ankle
where they tried to pull a cable out, he was homeless and believed
mentally ill,
this was a day after, he hadn;t been to a hospital or any medical help
he turned up at
soup/help 'kitchen'. He was sent/foirced to hospital in the end.

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