They are starting to rip out the cables used in car chargers. It’s only 2m long, costs £300 to replace and the thief strips out £4 worth of copper.
Can't throw me off the scent
Submitted 4 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to memes@sopuli.xyz
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lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 4 months ago
OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 4 months ago
In turkey there are a lot of people who gather cardboard for recycling for a wage of about 30-40 dollars a day
Is the USA version of this just pulling copper?
MutilationWave@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Stealing copper, getting under older cars and cutting out catalytic converters, yes. Copper is not a big money maker but it’s better than collecting aluminum cans.
The problem with 90% of crime is poverty. They do hundreds of dollars of damage to make a few bucks. If we had universal basic income or better safety nets these crimes would nearly vanish overnight.
Serinus@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Well, except that it’s nearly always super damaging.
The US version would be more like collecting cans back when they had a 5 or 10 cent deposit. Today I can’t really think of anything like that. Maybe driving Uber/Lyft. Or just panhandling/begging.
frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 4 months ago
We have recyclers too
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That will be great when I’m on a long trip looking to charge in the middle of nowhere lol.
I have actually been stranded a couple of times already. Still love electric though
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 4 months ago
If this is how the Western world arrives at harm reduction and UBI for everyone - that it’s just good business - I’m not even gonna be mad.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 months ago
Like that would happen when they can sell £4 cables for £300.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 months ago
1: Why’s it $300 then?
2: All theft from Tesla owners is valid in 2025
3: Why do people assume they aren’t selling the expensive cables whole?
Schmuppes@lemmy.today 4 months ago
- Because the damage also includes labor and overhead, not just Material.
- We’re not talking about Tesla specifically.
- Even if the stolen cable was left undamaged, who are you gonna sell it to? The company that owns the charging station?
Clasm@ttrpg.network 4 months ago
1: Labor & Equipment.
2: Tesla owners don’t necessarily own the Charging stations.
3: They are icing wire cutters to remove the cables, destroying the cable in the process.
droans@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You know there’s more to it than just raw copper, right?
The cable itself, insulation, active cooling, labor, complicated build process, specialized installation, etc.
Don’t be daft.
desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
TBF they do have a large gauge wire in them
frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 4 months ago
It’s not a long distance and they don’t have super large gauge. I’d have expected 0 or 2/0 but apparently 2-4 is common.
tpihkal@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Never trust a copper.
dumbass@leminal.space 4 months ago
We have crackheads in Aus, maybe we need to stear them towards our copper cable so they can rip it up and our government will actually give us the NBN we were promised, will full fiber all the way.
CaptKoala@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Honestly not a bad idea, I approve.
Event_Horizon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Modern day problems require modern day solutions
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I haven’t played netrunner in ages, but I still love the shitty australian internet corp is the evil surveilance corp from netrunner
dan@upvote.au 4 months ago
I’m still surprised that Australia didn’t do more with the HFC network. Seems like a missed opportunity. Some ISPs in the USA are trialing 2Gbps symmetric (2Gbps up and down) over coax.
rumba@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
I want like 1 ft of carrier bundle fiber optic, because I think it’s cool as shit.
Every time I see one of the spools I want to go up and hack a foot off of it but I wouldn’t want to come off as a tweaker.
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
rumba@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
those are boring, i want hunks of cable, undersea cable, backbone cable, local telco.
what can I say, I probably have issues :)
Nfamwap@lemmy.world 4 months ago
If you live in the UK I’ll send you some. 864f OK?
rumba@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
864f
Aww, that’s awesome—you’re awesome! And that’s a wicked-looking cable. Sadly, I’m in the US.
It made me ponder, though. It looks like several different product manufacturers sell affordable samples of some of the larger cables.
Psythik@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Where the hell are you hanging out, that you regularly run into spools of fiber optic cable? I’ve never seen one in my life!
MutilationWave@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’m not who you responded to but my answer is all the time due to my job.
rumba@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
there’s a lot of construction near me, it was all wilderness, now they’re putting in housing developments.
PlainSimpleGarak@lemmings.world 4 months ago
Crackhead gonna crackhead.
WhyFlip@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s typically meth heads that are stealing all of the copper.
mogranja@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Wouldn’t calling them drugheads be more inclusive? Just saying.
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
How valuable is optic fiber “cables” anyway? 🤔
synapse1278@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s very valuable as a cable, but as material, it’s worthless. Pull on it to hard, give it a rough bend, cute it anywhere, and it isn’t a cable anymore.
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 4 months ago
cute it anywhere
Resist the urge to put kitty stickers on fiber optic cables. Got it.
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Now I’m curious, how DO they cut it to size?
credo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You can take this and install your own fiber to home. Free unlimited internet.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Only the connectors and the skill to weld them on are expensive.
The cable itself is just glass and plastic with some shielding.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Extremely
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
So instead of copper cable theft, they’ll just steal the optic fiber cables then… 🤔
The sign isn’t helping lol
doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Not very. Worthless if cut into short lengths.
A thief who rips a bunch out of a construction site or similar won’t be able to sell it for anything, if that’s what you wanted to know.
crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz 4 months ago
[deleted]Aphelion@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Wow, nice EuroRacism.
SoftTeeth@lemmy.world 4 months ago
*Cooper
30p87@feddit.org 4 months ago
*knowing
5715@feddit.org 4 months ago
Shut up Gadjo
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 months ago
“Come out, copper, I know you’re in there!”
grandkaiser@lemmy.today 4 months ago
“I hate crackheads I hate crackheads”
LifeLemons@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Me when I keep moving a super strong monster magnet of 10¹⁰ >!(I forgor the unit of measurement for magnetic strength)!< near the copper wire:
(Suddenly the copper shits itself)
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
The unit is Tesla. For reference, the earths magnetic field is around 50 nT on the surface (depending on latitude), and MRI machines have 1.5 T or 3 T. So your 10¹⁰ T might just nail you to the earths Iron core 😂
Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Nail me harder down tu the core, magnet daddy.
brachypelmasmithi@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Given that even 3 T is already considered a large amount of flux, would it be even possible for an object with 10 billion Tesla to even exist? And if so, what would it take to achieve that amount of flux? Does a neutron star or a pulsar* get even remotely close?
* - pulling these examples kinda out of my ass – while i’m sure neutron stars have extreme magnetic fields i’m not so sure about pulsars
LifeLemons@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
I didn’t remember the scale, I just picked a number from my head
Tja@programming.dev 4 months ago
Are you trying to melt the copper by induction? Not much else can be done with a magnet, since copper isn’t ferromagnetic…
LifeLemons@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
I meant induce so much unwanted voltage that the voltage regulators can’t even handle, killing all electrical supplies
As some pointed out, 10¹⁰ T is too much, I think 10 T will do
DigitalMus@feddit.dk 4 months ago
Cool, can I come over and have a look at your
super strong monster magnetNeutron star?MutilationWave@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yeah but the tracer wire
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 4 months ago
But fibre does form a crucial part of a healthy diet. Much on fibre optic cables while you sweat hard to dig up the real copper.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yeah I hear those dirty Sanchez’s stick around
spicytuna62@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The crack pipe is a wonderful touch.
Entropywins@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That is a methpipe…a straight glass tube filled with steel wool would be a crack pipe… don’t want that awkward silence and judgement from addicts when you call it the wrong name!!!
spicytuna62@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Damn. I wrote meth and changed it to crack at the last second. I have let my addict heritage down. My father would be disappointed if he wasn’t so high right now. :(
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I’m NOT a fucking METHHEAD!
…I’m a crackhead. Get it right!