They are starting to rip out the cables used in car chargers. It's only 2m long, costs £300 to replace and the thief strips out £4 worth of copper.
In turkey there are a lot of people who gather cardboard for recycling for a wage of about 30-40 dollars a day
Is the USA version of this just pulling copper?
Stealing copper, getting under older cars and cutting out catalytic converters, yes. Copper is not a big money maker but it's better than collecting aluminum cans.
The problem with 90% of crime is poverty. They do hundreds of dollars of damage to make a few bucks. If we had universal basic income or better safety nets these crimes would nearly vanish overnight.
We have recyclers too
That will be great when I'm on a long trip looking to charge in the middle of nowhere lol.
I have actually been stranded a couple of times already. Still love electric though
TBF they do have a large gauge wire in them
It's not a long distance and they don't have super large gauge. I'd have expected 0 or 2/0 but apparently 2-4 is common.
1: Why's it $300 then?
2: All theft from Tesla owners is valid in 2025
3: Why do people assume they aren't selling the expensive cables whole?
We have crackheads in Aus, maybe we need to steer them towards our copper cable so they can rip it up and our government will actually give us the NBN we were promised, with full fiber all the way.
Honestly not a bad idea, I approve.
Modern day problems require modern day solutions
I haven't played netrunner in ages, but I still love the shitty australian internet corp is the evil surveilance corp from netrunner
I'm still surprised that Australia didn't do more with the HFC network. Seems like a missed opportunity. Some ISPs in the USA are trialing 2Gbps symmetric (2Gbps up and down) over coax using DOCSIS 4.0, and even DOCSIS 3.1 can get you at least 2Gbps down and ~400Mbps up.
Crackhead gonna crackhead.
It's typically meth heads that are stealing all of the copper.
Wouldn't calling them drugheads be more inclusive? Just saying.
I want like 1 ft of carrier bundle fiber optic, because I think it's cool as shit.
Every time I see one of the spools I want to go up and hack a foot off of it but I wouldn't want to come off as a tweaker.
Where the hell are you hanging out, that you regularly run into spools of fiber optic cable? I've never seen one in my life!
I'm not who you responded to but my answer is all the time due to my job.
there's a lot of construction near me, it was all wilderness, now they're putting in housing developments.
"Come out, copper, I know you're in there!"
"I hate crackheads
I hate crackheads"
But fibre does form a crucial part of a healthy diet. Much on fibre optic cables while you sweat hard to dig up the real copper.
Yeah but the tracer wire
Yeah I hear those dirty Sanchez's stick around
The crack pipe is a wonderful touch.
That is a methpipe...a straight glass tube filled with steel wool would be a crack pipe... don't want that awkward silence and judgement from addicts when you call it the wrong name!!!
Never trust a copper.
How valuable is optic fiber "cables" anyway? 🤔
Only the connectors and the skill to weld them on are expensive.
The cable itself is just glass and plastic with some shielding.
You can take this and install your own fiber to home. Free unlimited internet.
Not very. Worthless if cut into short lengths.
A thief who rips a bunch out of a construction site or similar won't be able to sell it for anything, if that's what you wanted to know.
It's very valuable as a cable, but as material, it's worthless. Pull on it to hard, give it a rough bend, cute it anywhere, and it isn't a cable anymore.
cute it anywhere
Resist the urge to put kitty stickers on fiber optic cables. Got it.
Me when I keep moving a super strong monster magnet of 10¹⁰ >!(I forgor the unit of measurement for magnetic strength)!< near the copper wire:
(Suddenly the copper shits itself)
The unit is Tesla. For reference, the earths magnetic field is around 50 μT on the surface (depending on latitude), and MRI machines have 1.5 T or 3 T. So your 10¹⁰ T might just nail you to the earth's iron core 😂
Nail me harder down to the core, magnet daddy.
Given that even 3 T is already considered a large amount of flux, would it be even possible for an object with 10 billion Tesla to even exist? And if so, what would it take to achieve that amount of flux? Does a neutron star or a pulsar* get even remotely close?
* - pulling these examples kinda out of my ass – while i'm sure neutron stars have extreme magnetic fields i'm not so sure about pulsars
Are you trying to melt the copper by induction? Not much else can be done with a magnet, since copper isn't ferromagnetic...
I meant induce so much unwanted voltage that the voltage regulators can't even handle, killing all electrical supplies
As some pointed out, 10¹⁰ T is too much, I think 10 T will do
Cool, can I come over and have a look at your
super strong monster magnetNeutron star?
ACAB: all coppers are bastards
