Telkom cable thieves cut off thousands

Remember this happening often when I lived with my dad.

Had no internet sometimes for weeks (and we had an internet café). :(

Little pricks stealing cables! Get a job you lazy piece of shit. :mad:
 
Worst part is they go get R1k or R2k for it, but the businesses affected might lose in the 100s of thousands. If our internet at work were to get cut off, our business would probably grind to a standstill.
 
Graal said:
Worst part is they go get R1k or R2k for it, but the businesses affected might lose in the 100s of thousands. If our internet at work were to get cut off, our business would probably grind to a standstill.
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Isn't it less than that. As far as I know, you'll need a real good amount in order to get a somewhat decent pay.
 
When the my office losses con everything kind of stands still. Kinda fail and the system they use is useless due to them not knowing whats going on. All they say is its been handed to Telkom techs >< dose not tell me more or less. Kinda sucks really
 
I'm so glad I don't live in that area. My exchange has been slow as hell for the last 5 weeks, but slow internet still beats no internet.
 
It's at times like this that I'm glad I use mobile broadband. It's not that fast most of the time, but no cables...
 
Overdue to make copper theft a more serious crime and dish harsh sentences if they catch the critters. The enforcement starts with the swines buying the copper at scrap metal yards.
 
Not just harsher dealings with but also way way overdue to completely move away from copper. How telkom can continue being so dense in key areas really blows my hair back sometimes.
 
Vampothic said:
Isn't it less than that. As far as I know, you'll need a real good amount in order to get a somewhat decent pay.
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I guess it depends on how much they steal. A few years back my dad gave us a lot of excess copper cables they had lying around in their workshop and we got up to R35/kilogram at some places as long as it was shiny-bright (meaning it was neatly stripped off of its encasing, and not just burned off).
 
Graal said:
I guess it depends on how much they steal. A few years back my dad gave us a lot of excess copper cables they had lying around in their workshop and we got up to R35/kilogram at some places as long as it was shiny-bright (meaning it was neatly stripped off of its encasing, and not just burned off).
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I love that there is such an imaginative term for it :P
 
I sometimes wonder how many jobs we could create with the lost revenue and growth attributable to cable theft
 
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