Even the inhabitants of Ambridge have had problems with cable thieves. This very week, most of the village lost its broadband and telephone connections after "200 meters" of cable was purloined. As a result, for several days, many were temporarily reduced to a Stone Age way of living. However, I believe that normal service had been restored by Friday.
See the "Ambridge" thread!
It's not in uk.d-i-y and legal.uk, so presumably it's in uk.rec.gardening.
Remains of their hats
Extent of the plasma arc path across the surface of the ground - a self-sustaining fire is unlikely
They will have stood back and watched, until assured by the electric company that the power was off, and attendance at site of electric company personel to test it really is off.
They never do, in case someone is offended. You could say the same for car/motorbike crashes, etc. It would probably help significantly if teenagers understood how fragile their bodies are by actually seeing what happens to bodies in a crash before they were allowed to control a vehicle on the road, but that would be politically unacceptable, so they are let loose at a time in their lives where they are under a complete misapprehension of being indestructable.
\I have noticed a lot more power cuts than usual lately, and have been wondering if it due to cable theft
Sorry! Got my groups mixed up. It's in uk.telecom....
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I know it's difficult to sympathise with someone cut down by their own criminal actions, but it's not a crime for which anyone is going to suggest a death sentence is appropriate. So in the sense that they didn't get a chance to serve their sentence and didn't get a chance to go on to become reformed upright citizens, I do feel sorry for them. Of course, I have no way of knowing if they would have taken that chance even if it had been made available to them, or if they would have continued to be a blight on society, or if they've been a blight on society for some time before this.
I am certainly not going to flat out disagree with your humane view. But I do think that people who do things like this completely ignore the danger they pose to the rest of us by their actions. The safety systems that fail. The operations that are interrupted or deferred - and the consequences of that.
I doubt if they ignore them. I doubt if such issues ever enter their minds.
Probably right in many cases.
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But their "death sentence" is self-imposed, not dished out by a court. Numerous warning signs tell them of the dangers surrounding electricity poles/pylons, substations and railways.
I'm afraid that I don't subscribe to the view that once you've served a sentence you're as clean as the man next door, which effectively "commercialises" crime by giving it a specific "price" as punishment.
I was on my chair edge there.
How did they broadcast the midweek episodes without power?
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It's cheaper for us than keeping them in prison.
They probably weren't bright sparks.
Every Xmas time around here the local police/fire brigade place terribly smashed up cars on the roundabouts along with suitable 'don't drink & drive' posters.
Not for any length of time, anyway.
Were they Amp meters or Volt meters ?
I was wondering that myself:
Meter: device for measuring something e.g. volts Metre: foreign unit of length
(Cue twaddle from the Loo-tenant).
But were the signs in 20 different languages, judging by their colour, they might not have been able to read the signs.
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