declared for all the world to hear...
Apparently the local pikeys, if short of beer vouchers, come around at night
and pinch the flashing from the porches. 400 units with 10 metres of porch
flashing, stolen apparently twice a year?

My father in law worked for the local council and he regularly has to
visit the permanent traveller sites to replace the copper piping from
the toilet blocks which are provided to them free of charge.

Presumably they sell the piping for scrap or something. It beggars
belief that people would rip out pipes from buildings which have been
provided to them free of charge at taxpayers expense, but they do.
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Regards
Jon

Jon wrote:

regularly has to
visit the permanent traveller sites to replace the copper piping from
the toilet blocks

*if* that is so, you'd think the council would have cottoned-on and
replaced with plastic pipe by now ...

On 2006-12-02 08:24:26 +0000, Andy Burns said:

Jon wrote:

regularly has to visit the permanent traveller sites to replace the
copper piping from the toilet blocks

*if* that is so, you'd think the council would have cottoned-on and
replaced with plastic pipe by now ...

Well you would... but....

A business acquaintance in Johannesburg told me of the problems of
telecommunication cabling.

For many years there has been a common practice of stealing sections of
underground copper cable that are run through the sewers. The method
is to drive up to a manhole cover using a vehicle with appropriate tow
hood etc. and to attach that to the cable in some way and drive off.
A reasonable length of cable follows. Insulation is burnt off and
the copper gathered and sold.

More recently it was hoped that the introduction of fibre optic cables
would dissuade such thieves. Not a bit of it - the practice continues
- except this time, the fibre bundles are apparently cut and
incorporated into fibre optic lamps sold by traders at the roadside or
at traffic lights. It seems that the margin is higher than for copper.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Andy Burns
saying something like:

*if* that is so, you'd think the council would have cottoned-on and
replaced with plastic pipe by now ...

The ****s would just make blowpipes out of it.
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Dave

On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 07:27:58 -0000, Jon wrote:

Presumably they sell the piping for scrap or something. It beggars
belief that people would rip out pipes from buildings which have been
provided to them free of charge at taxpayers expense, but they do.

Free money. Don't see why they should be replaced more than once a year
with at least a 6 month delay from damage to replacement. Let the pikeys
carry water from a standpipe a mile from the caravan site.

Plastic? They'd just set fire to it or try to.

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Cheers
Dave. pam is missing e-mail