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Thieves Cut Cable Wires at West Virginia Department of AgricultureExcerpted from an article by Jared Hunt at the Daily Mail Capitol Reporter
Cable thieves are to blame for cutting off the state Department of Agriculture's headquarters from the outside world Monday, an official said. When employees arrived for work at the department's Guthrie headquarters Monday morning, they discovered all external communications had been severed. Thieves cut the wires leading to the department's headquarters - located about 10 miles north of Charleston - in an attempt to strip copper from the utility cables, department spokesman Buddy Davidson said. When the thieves cut the copper phone lines, they also severed the fiber optic data lines that provide online service to the headquarters. As a result, department employees had no way to call or e-mail anyone outside their building. |
Cable Theft in The U.K.Excerpted from an article by Anthony Carroll on edp24.co.uk
Over the past 18 months more than £500,000 worth of cable has been stolen from manholes, mostly in the west of Suffolk. Manholes by the side of the road are opened up and the cabling is dragged out using a vehicle. The thieves will often wear fluorescent jackets to look like genuine workmen. The cabling is then pulled to an adjacent field and cut up so it can be transported away. Cable stolen support public and essential phonelines for businesses and emergency services. Cable Clippers Shut Down Pro Soccer Stadium - Delay MatchExcerpted from an article by Mazola Molefe, Charl Du Plessis, and Retha Grobbelaar at TimesLive.co.za
The jewel in South Africa's soccer crown was closed down last night - by thieves. Soccer City, the pride of the country's successful World Cup last year, was hurriedly shut down as a sports venue yesterday when thieves broke through a manhole and stole cables connecting the stadium to the City of Johannesburg's electricity supply. "The cables were not stolen from inside the stadium," said chief operations officer Ronnie Schloss. "They were probably stolen from a manhole dug out somewhere closer to the stadium, and that affected the power going into the venue." |
Water Damage Cuts Phone Service in Santa AnaExcerpted from an article by Doug Irving at the Orange County Register
SANTA ANA – Dozens of homes and businesses in south Santa Ana have been without phone service this week after water seeped into an underground AT&T cable and knocked it out. Crews found that lines in a single cable had been damaged by water left in a large manhole by recent rainstorms... Vandals Cut Phone Lines to Hundreds of HomesExcerpt from an article by Michael Russell on EalingGazette.co.uk
NEARLY a thousand residents have been left without phone lines for more than a week after vandals cut underground cables. It is thought the raiders disguised themselves as workmen, complete with signs and high-visibility jackets, before delving down into manholes in Cleveland Road, West Ealing. They cut communications for 900 neighbours in surrounding streets last Monday. Furious residents say they cannot understand why the repair work is taking so long.
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