Re: UV stabilized POTS cable?

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

man thats totally weird


"Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Crash Gordon wrote:
>> yah probably except there's more goop and insulation in that stuff than
>> copper
>>
>> we got these old geezers that walk around subdivisions picking up
>> scraps...I
>> thought it was silly till we picked up after sparky on a job a few weeks
>> ago, my guy did anyway...he got 100 bucks for it not stripped, he woulda
>> gotten more if he had taken the time to strip it.
>>
>> now i must rethink my profession...copper picker or alarm dood?
>>
>> :-)
>>
>
> A number of years ago, I owned an investment two family home that was
> built in the 30's. It had all copper gutters and down spouts. One day I
> pulled into the yard to collect rent and thought something looked
> different about the house but couldn't tell what it was, until one of
> the tenants asked me when the men were coming back to replace the old
> copper gutters and downspouts they removed the other day. Neither the
> police nor I were ever able to find out who did it or how they knew
> that the tenants wouldn't know they weren't supposed to be there. The
> tenants were rather elderly, so I don't think they were involved. Who
> ever did it sure had a pair of balls though. Even stripped the detached
> garage.
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