I contacted Highveld Taxidermist via email regarding my 2009 trophy shipment. The paragraph below was at the bottom of their reply.

"Please note that our land lines are currently out of order due to cable
theft. We have been advised that the cables will be replaced shortly. We can
be reached on the following cellphone number 27 83 855 4600 (calls only, no
sms)"

AWA...Africa wins again...

Real Shocker!!!!

You guys have not been to Cleveland or Detroit lately. It is a fairly common occurence in some neighborhoods, with emphasis on the hood part. They are also stealing manhole covers, as well as pipe and wire out of foreclosed houses.

Wageni have to be kept in bangles somehow. I wonder where they think the copper comes from.

I worked in Wilmington Delaware for many years. Across the river from my location was a metal recycling plant. You could see people with shopping carts full of scrap metal walking down that road to sell it to them for the most noble of reasons I'm sure. I'm also equally sure they could prove ownership of those shopping carts.

Not far from there was a ranch style house that stood out away from others. One day I noticed the house had been boarded up. Over the weekend the house siding had been stripped. Apparently it was aluminum sided. Not sure how many shopping cart trips it takes for that much aluminum.

When in Zim a week ago, there were miles of steel posts at the boundary separating the Sengwa Research area from the adjacent native villages. They were put there as a fence to keep the Cape Buff from intermixing with the village cattle, and possibly spreading Hoof and Mouth disease. Naturally, when installed, the posts were connected with 3 or 4 strands of wire to form a fence, but that had been all stripped clean. Basically what the expensive project accomplished was to provide the locals with a lifetime of snare material.

Some enterprising fellow stole the old telegraph line on a 60 mile stretch of the old B&O railroad in PA.

Punish the thieves & THE PEOPLE BUYING THIS STOLEN MATERIAL (who know the material is stolen).

Oh hell! Back in the late '70's to early '80's stealing copper conductors from job sites, housing projects, wherever, was a cottage industry in Texas. you could drive through certain rural areas and see large piles of wire being burned, to remove the insulation, prior to transport to scrap metal dealers. vigorous law enforcement combined with a reduction in copper prices finally
mitigated the thefts

A Kiwi expat was DHL manager in North Africa in the 80's. He had to start learning African French. Within the first month one of his staff came & asked him for some tape or string to secure a parcel for dispatch. This Kiwi manager was frustrated that the guy could not arrange something as simple as tape to secure a parcel & told him to sort it out himself.

The next day there was no communication to or from the DHL office. No telex messages on his desk. A quick investigation showed that the telex cable was missing! it had been removed to secure the parcel the previous day!

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Originally posted by boltshooter:
Punish the thieves & THE PEOPLE BUYING THIS STOLEN MATERIAL (who know the material is stolen).

Been to Africa much, have you?

In Baltimore, the natives are stealing street light poles and selling them for scrap.....

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Originally posted by Mike Smith:
You guys have not been to Cleveland or Detroit lately. It is a fairly common occurence in some neighborhoods, with emphasis on the hood part. They are also stealing manhole covers, as well as pipe and wire out of foreclosed houses.

"hapiness is a warm gun" especially in Cleveland or Detroit!

At Clark AB in the Phillipines word was - "Everything on the base has been stolen. We're just waiting for them to pick it up."

Appears to be also happening in the UK now as well.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...000-phone-cable.html