August 6, 2008 – 12:31 pm
I guess there are a lot of crystal meth heads in Sacramento, CA stealing miles of copper wire from schools, and anywhere else they can find it. This time they cut the wire before the video surveillance system caught them! Looks like they forgot to set up a battery powered back-up surveillance system…
Copper thieves cut power to school surveillance system, escape
As luck would have it, thieves stripping copper wires from Kingswood Elementary last weekend managed to cut the juice to the school’s surveillance system.
“Lucky for them,” lamented Robert Lewis, scheduling supervisor for San Juan Unified School District’s maintenance and operations department. “Not our luck.”
Left with no leads and a $3,500 bill, San Juan officials can only brace for the next in a series of copper thefts that has cost the district almost $150,000 in about a month.
At $3 a foot, the copper electrical wiring is an enticing commodity for thieves who have risked electrocution in the wee hours of the morning for their valuable loot. So far this summer, vandals have targeted five campuses.
El Camino High School was their first and most lucrative hit: 2,400 feet of copper that could have fetched up to $7,200 at scrap metal yards.
That job probably took about four hours and at least two people, given the weight of the metal, estimates Bob Davis, director of maintenance and operations for San Juan Unified. The theft cost the district $40,000 in replacement parts and labor, Davis said.
Kingswood was the latest theft, and the least damaging. Each of the four previous thefts cost the San Juan district at least $30,000.
Wow, with the cost of metals sky rocketing, that’s a pretty good haul for 4 hours work. However, those are staggering losses and you really need to dome something about it.
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Christopher Winkler
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