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> His biggest headache was replacing the electrical equipment thieves would demolish to get to the copper It's one of the reason trains get stuck in Europe: th
by TacticalCoder 25d ago
> His biggest headache was replacing the electrical equipment thieves would demolish to get to the copper
It's one of the reason trains get stuck in Europe: thieves stealing copper cables. They've been found to steal, too, heavy road grate if they were of any value: which created actual serious accidents (where a car's tire falls into the hole).
Regarding the electrical cables for trains, one solution is, slowly , replace them with cables with basically the same properties but 1/10th the copper.
Other funky solutions have been implemented: chemical sprays with a composition that is watermark and that cannot easily be removed. So when caught the thieves cannot deny because for x weeks the watermark stays, invisible and harmless, on their skin.
One question of course is: what does society think we should do with thieves who create road accidents and who render trains inoperable?
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- mschuster91 25d ago> It's one of the reason trains get stuck in Europe: thieves stealing copper cables. Even worse. Sometimes, the dumb fucks think something has copper in it, but actually it's fiber... once two copper thieves simultaneously took out the primary and secondary fiber for the GSM-R network, leading to a complete standstill in Northern Germany [1]. (Personally: given the timing, I think it was Russian throwaway agents, and I do not believe that "copper thieves" cover story for a single second) [1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM-R-Ausfall_bei_der_Deutschen_Bahn_am_8._Oktober_2022 https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM-R-Ausfall_bei_der_Deutsche...
- downrightmike 25d agotrains arent really useful in the US on purpose
- gumby 25d agoTrains in the US are super useful…for freight. Pretty much worthless for passengers in most cases. Canada and Australia are similar. Europe puts people in trains and freight in semi-trailers. China and Japan are more like this. India dedicates its rail network 100% to passengers and also 100% to freight. Somehow it works.
- gumby 25d ago> One question of course is: what does society think we should do with thieves who create road accidents and who render trains inoperable? They should be liable for consequential damages.
- NoImmatureAdHom 25d agoDeath. Make me late to the airport will ya?
- singpolyma3 25d agoWe should raise their standard of living so they don't turn to theft
- suddenlybananas 25d agoEuropean countries generally have a fairly generous social safety net.
- singpolyma3 24d agoAnd yet they still have poor and strained people
- socks 25d agoI've had trains cancelled due to copper theft from rail infrastructure in suburban Australia, which has a very high standard of living.
- singpolyma3 24d agoFor some residents sure, clearly not for all in the area