{"id":8721,"date":"2015-07-30T20:45:20","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T00:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=8721"},"modified":"2023-03-26T08:56:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T12:56:28","slug":"copper-thieves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2015\/07\/copper-thieves\/","title":{"rendered":"Copper Thieves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you are the type of person that drives around to transmitter sites and steals things; fuck you. You have no idea the problems you are causing to get a few extra dollars worth of scrap copper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Missing copper ground buss bar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I have a feeling that most of these copper thefts can be attributed to out-of-town tower contractors removing old cellular equipment from towers.  Notice, only the buss bar and copper ground wire is missing.  They did not try to cut the transmission lines.  In other words, they seemed to know what they were doing.  I have noticed around here that when a particular contractor, employed by an unnamed large company that rhymes with glint, would work at a site, things would be missing afterward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps it is just a coincidence. I have never been able to catch anyone pinching things. However, if this is you, and I catch you, you can rest assured that I will block you in with my car, then walk down the road and call the police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you are the type of person that drives around to transmitter sites and steals things; fuck you. You have no idea the problems you are causing to get a few extra dollars worth of scrap copper. I have a feeling that most of these copper thefts can be attributed to out-of-town tower contractors removing … Continue reading Copper Thieves<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,243,95],"class_list":["post-8721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-am-transmitter-site","tag-fm-tansmitter-site","tag-theft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8721"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11197,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8721\/revisions\/11197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}