Kopi talk - Stolen Electrical Wires & Parts

Hi Market man thanks for the article I guess it happen almost parts of Philippine. Like over here I heard from a source that a PLDT cable was stolen causing much delay for the high speed broadband service to be install in  Guibang Gamu. Some neighborhood story about a poor family who’s eldest child was so proud of his “wire-cutting” that he even told his mother that he would be able to buy himself and his siblings new uniforms for school since he was able to sell the wires for 2k!! I guess if nobody buys the stolen wires, then nobody would cut them off. In  In Singapore, for a hard core vandalism they were giving jail sentence as a punishment and is a great deterrent effect . Although I’m all for recycling, maybe we should limit their goods to bote and dyaryo, minus the bakal.

Stolen Electrical Wires and Parts posted by Marketman

It’s bad enough we are all suffering from the effects of Typhoon Milenya. It’s amazing to me that Meralco is able to repair so many damaged lines in a relatively short amount of time. So we were so grateful at the school that I am connected with when a truck showed up today with all manner of parts and cables and stopped right near the school campus with the intent of fixing a substation or other technical that would hopefully restore power to the school with nearly 400 students and staff that have been unable to return to classes so far. Seeing the extent of the damage, they unloaded their cables and assorted parts and headed back to home base to pick up a replacement transformer or other major part. When they returned just two hours later, they found that all of the parts they had earlier unloaded had been STOLEN! How bloody obnoxious is that? Is that incredulous or what!!! And this is on the heels of documented reports of people stealing cables from downed poles right on EDSA and other major thoroughfares in BROAD DAYLIGHT during and after the storm! I know what I would do to these thieves if they were caught and I was a supreme dictator… but I am curious what all of you would mete out as punishment.