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Re: Vandalism Likely ...

From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:44:59 -0400

On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:00:38 EDT, "Steven M. Callahan" said:

The average copper thief normally isn't intelligent enough to know the
difference between black PVC clad copper and black PVC clad fiber until they
cut it.


I wish I still had the link to the pictures - one company in Europe was laying
fiber that had 'NO COPPER INSIDE' written on the PVC every few feet, in 5
different languages.  It helped, but not 100%, IIRC.

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