[BC] Big copper theft in IA

[Cowboy]

On Friday 10 February 2012 04:13:10 pm RichardBJohnson at comcast.net wrote:
> The problem is enforcement. It is hard to catch copper thieves. The police would rather spend their time doing something easy and visible like catching speeders.

 Catching thieves, protecting the citizens and their property ( what we pay them
 for, and their reason to exist in the first place ) produces no direct cash income
 to local government, or government at any level for that matter.
 Persecuting the citizens, like speeding tickets, does !

> Unless someone goes to the head of the town or city, the Mayor, the City Manager, etc., and starts a big stink, the police will never find the perpetrators and certainly will never prevent it from happening.
> 
> The solution is an above-ground counterpoise

 Another solution is to shoot the thieves !
 ( they used to shoot horse thieves, didn't they ? )
 This ( of course ) would violate the "rights" of the "less fortunate" although
 it should raise an adequate stink, and give would-be thieves reason to
 reconsider.

 Unfortunately, we live in a free society, so keeping the public interest,
 convenience, and especially necessity, takes a back seat every time.

 Since we can't shoot them, and any other personal deterrent is likely
 also illegal, our only solutions are to make it somehow impractical, 
 close to impossible, to remove the system, such as encasing buried radials
 in concrete, or something similar. 

 Planting the entire field in some kind of heavy prickered bramble would
 possibly work as well, though make servicing a tad more difficult.


-- 
Cowboy