Metal Thefts Soar ...
"WZR" wrote in message
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On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:45:09 +0000, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 16:36:42 on
Wed, 28 Dec 2011, Bevan Price remarked:
I would suggest that the law needs to be changed so that cable thieves
can be charged with "sabotage
Perhaps. Or why not simply Criminal Damage?
& endangering safety of rail passengers", rather than theft, with
severe minimum penalties specified by law, such that some namby-pamby
do-gooder could not reduce to a token level of sentence. Dodgy scrap
dealers should also face similarly severe charges & penalties.
That's somewhat in conflict with the idea that signalling systems are
fail-safe.
Removing lumps of power cable tends to put signals out, and a row of black
signals isn't especially fail-safe.
Then there's the rather creative method of theft intended to avoid
detection
which was employed recently (for obvious reasons I will not go into
details). Suffice to say the use of that method on the wrong cables could
result in a decidely non fail-safe situation.
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WZR
Yes that scares me what they are doing now.
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