In message , Paul Corfield
writes
[1] I raise the stolen issue because Tramlink recently suffered theft
of parts of its electrical distribution and bonding system and that
took the network out for at least a day.

There's a lot of it about. I was caught in the traffic chaos resulting
from *this* today:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/w...ds/6154406.stm
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On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Ian Jelf wrote:

In message , Paul Corfield
writes

[1] I raise the stolen issue because Tramlink recently suffered theft
of parts of its electrical distribution and bonding system and that
took the network out for at least a day.

There's a lot of it about. I was caught in the traffic chaos resulting
from *this* today:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/w...ds/6154406.stm

Email from IT last week:

"Fibre cables serving Torrington Place and associated buildings were
severed earlier today by vandals intent on stealing copper, along with
various other cables types (telephone, building management etc.). This
resulted in a loss of network connectivity to Torrington Place, Brook
House, 188 Tottenham Court Road, the Heals building, and the Mullard Space
Science Laboratory."

Not entirely sure why Heals is connected to UCL's network, but still.
Happily, further down the email:

"The Police have made a number of arrests and have taken statements from
various UCL staff who saw some of the individuals leaving the empty NHS
building in which the damage was done."

tom

--
It's worth remembering that if you chain a thousand monkeys to a
thousand typewriters, they will all eventually die of starvation. --
themanwhofellasleep

Tom Anderson quotes "Email from IT last week":
"Fibre cables serving Torrington Place and associated buildings were
severed earlier today by vandals intent on stealing copper, along with
various other cables types..."

In my taxonomy of malefactors those would be thieves, not vandals.
Vandalism is damage done for its own sake.
--
Mark Brader "Well, I didn't completely test it, and
Toronto of course there was a power failure the
next day." -- Louis J. Judice

On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 Mark Brader wrote:

Tom Anderson quotes "Email from IT last week":
"Fibre cables serving Torrington Place and associated buildings were
severed earlier today by vandals intent on stealing copper, along with
various other cables types..."

In my taxonomy of malefactors those would be thieves, not vandals.
Vandalism is damage done for its own sake.

No, vandals according to today's Ealing Gazette, where it made the front
page. Apparently they were disturbed so cut the cables but didn't
succeed in getting away with them.

Vandals and would-be thieves.
--
Thoss