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Re: Loss of impedance bond cables aka current/static dissipators can be nasty
Author: BOB2
Date: 09-28-2024 - 09:15
Shocking Wrote:
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> Thieves got into a LADWP substation and stole all
> the grounding cables
> It was during a Santa Ana wind condition where the
> humidity was low and the cases of the big
> transformers charged up to tens of thousands of
> volts and some flashed over
> One caught fire
> Wire thieves also can get injured or killed if
> they come in contact with ground and the
> transformer case
> Then their next of kin can sue
Another troll inspired fantasy about the perpetrators of this kind of crime suing as "victims"? That's the alternative reality some folks exist in, I guess...
Meanwhile, it kind of looks like good old fashioned copper theft, and they are probably keeping mum on this, because they are going to try to track down the scrap dealers who have bought it, as this stuff can be much easier to identify.
Yep, let's hope that they "don't get hurt", or "caught" like the scrap dealers just busted for receiving stolen goods.
Fox on Copper thief busts...
Toughening up current theft laws, by including a charge of sabotaging public infrastructure with say a five-to-twenty-year minimum mandatory prison sentence (depending on the severity of the damage from the sabotage), would probably go a long way toward increasing the "risks" to deter this sort of crime a bit more effectively. That would probably help take at least some of the easy "fun and profit" out of this sort of crime.
There are some folks who try to work to fix problems in this world, and there are some folks who just seem to like to spew nonsense and get off over them...
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> Thieves got into a LADWP substation and stole all
> the grounding cables
> It was during a Santa Ana wind condition where the
> humidity was low and the cases of the big
> transformers charged up to tens of thousands of
> volts and some flashed over
> One caught fire
> Wire thieves also can get injured or killed if
> they come in contact with ground and the
> transformer case
> Then their next of kin can sue
Another troll inspired fantasy about the perpetrators of this kind of crime suing as "victims"? That's the alternative reality some folks exist in, I guess...
Meanwhile, it kind of looks like good old fashioned copper theft, and they are probably keeping mum on this, because they are going to try to track down the scrap dealers who have bought it, as this stuff can be much easier to identify.
Yep, let's hope that they "don't get hurt", or "caught" like the scrap dealers just busted for receiving stolen goods.
Fox on Copper thief busts...
Toughening up current theft laws, by including a charge of sabotaging public infrastructure with say a five-to-twenty-year minimum mandatory prison sentence (depending on the severity of the damage from the sabotage), would probably go a long way toward increasing the "risks" to deter this sort of crime a bit more effectively. That would probably help take at least some of the easy "fun and profit" out of this sort of crime.
There are some folks who try to work to fix problems in this world, and there are some folks who just seem to like to spew nonsense and get off over them...
