| problems@gmail 2008-02-11, 9:25 am |
| In article <47afd14f.1626203@news.verizon.net>, invalid@notreal.none (Beachcomber) wrote:
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> An interesting story concerning electricity theft was posted in the
> New York Times today (2/10).
>
So that means it's not taboo [politically incorrect with racial
implications] to discuss it there ? I know that it's regularly mentioned
as a factor impeding India's industrialisation.
> A spokesman for Consolidated Edison said... "Of those 88942 cases,
> 11371 were confirmed as thefts, including 104 referred for
> prosecution. There were 83 arrests and convictions."
>
> 11371 cases of confirmed electricity thefts in just one company
> service area?! My God! There must be electrical thieves in every
> neighborhood. Is it really that easy to do?
>
> I could see this happening in 3rd world places like parts of Mexico or
> India where sometimes the utility wiring is slipshod, even on the
> primary side, but why is this happening in places like New York City
> and Long Island?
>
> Also, it sounds like a pretty stupid thing to do. If you are a renter
> or an owner who does something illegal like this on your property, the
> evidence is going to be left there for the investigators. It's not
> like you can run away and abandon your property...
>
Not so, they tap-in 'before' their meter, or fiddle the meter.
And re. abandoning buildings, but not for electricity supply reasons,
we know that large areas of NY were abanoned in the 70's.
Since also many buidings were abandoned here in new-SA, after
the ANC was handed power and encouraged their supporters to
squat; I tried to get information of how it eventually 'unfolded'
in NY. One could learn from those who 'walk ahead'. But I could
never get any information from NYkers. It's like when I visited
Russsia in 1998, they all pretended not to know about communism
and implied that it was just my imagination.
> Beachcomber
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