It effected us here in shore-ditch for the whole day, line busy and then a "due to high network connection we could not process this call" it was around 17 fibre cables cut and effect most of London and south!
It happened 2.5k ish from southgate north London.
Cost of copper is on the slow down along with normal metal etc. but a afternoons work of clean copper aka all the plastic wrap etc cut off is worth alot more then running round in your transit trying to find the odd bit of scrap. Easy to cut and easy to strip down / melt if need be.
The whole id / bank transfer no cash etc has killed alot of people off but we now have a black market in scrap and some scrap yards will still pay cash no question asks.
As to the scrap man asking where it come from, you turn up with a ton of copper to weigh in, he pays out 4k and sells it on for 20 / 30% on top. easy 10 minute transaction. They are not going to care.
still nice, to see the police, imgration, Department of work n pensions and everyone else out side the scrap yard every so often, do cacth alot of people playing the game.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
