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Unbelievable.
I don't know if to laugh, but this is so funny and maybe it only happens in Colombia
I just got an email from my mother telling me that if i want to get in contact with her i have to call her on her mobile phone, why?
because the Etel telephone lines has been stolen, as you know in Colombia we have Telecom and Etel (Etel is kind of cheaper), so the whole are is without Internet or telephone, she asked the authorities why they did that, and according to the police, the metal the use it's very expensive I think it's copper so they take the metal out and sell it...
So they have been without telephone or internet for a week now and maybe they have to wait another.. incredible this thing happen, como dice mi madre "en colombia se roban un hueco pa' echarle tierra...
By kat1 (Moderator) on Feb 25, 2008, 09:24 in Friendly Talkzone.
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curramberochris says on Feb 25, 2008, 09:29: I have read about this recently in the papers. I suppose the copper must be worth robbing with the metal prices so high. It will be pretty hard to police too!
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jorgegdiaz says on Feb 25, 2008, 09:30: Electric grade Cu was $U 4/lb last year Kat. Man with hole in pocket feel cocky all day. 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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kat1 (Moderator) says on Feb 25, 2008, 09:31: Oh my god, that is incredible. what ever next?..... engage brain before opening mouth 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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sloopskipper says on Feb 25, 2008, 09:32: It is not only in Colombia. A few weeks ago the big Centenario bridge, which spans the the Panamá Canal, went dark, because thieves stole the copper power cables that fed the lighting.
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sloopskipper says on Feb 25, 2008, 09:34: If you have any gold fillings in your teeth, KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT, jaja.
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ColombianoGringo says on Feb 25, 2008, 09:36: It happens a lot in the US on construction sites and other places where copper is being installed. On the few occasions I dropped the remote while surfing past local news, I seem to have heard about that being a big problem here in Houston.
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kat1 (Moderator) says on Feb 25, 2008, 09:42: I remember there was some news about some people going to the cemeteries and digging up the death to steal their gold fillings... yiakkkk engage brain before opening mouth 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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Lowell says on Feb 25, 2008, 09:47: A few weeks ago some guy was canvasing the neighborhoods/barios and cutting of the brass oranaments that are often used on the wrought iron bar arrangements used for security on windows. He got the small ones from my neighbor across the street. One on my leaves was bent down. He also took brass numbers and any thing of metal value. Fool came back a few nights later, was caught, smacked around a bit and had a pistol screwed into his ear. Don't think he'll be back soon. Alfred E. Newman. "What. Me Worry?" 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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bickerss says on Feb 25, 2008, 09:49: You should try living in Africa - happens all the time. Or brazil whre some girls go without their hair as thieves rob them of it to sell;
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vicshere says on Feb 25, 2008, 09:51: kat that happened twice last year on my street we had the phone out for a week then for 3 days....the copper in the lines has value as weight listo 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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Colombiche says on Feb 25, 2008, 09:53: I once walked into a bathroom in manizales, touched up my makeup, walked out remembered I left he makeup bag there, walked back in it was gone. Who the hell wants a used up lipstick and mascara.... at that moment I wished I had cold sores all over my lips and a bad case of pink eye so the thief would learn her lesson :( No me den trago extranjero, que es caro y no sabe a bueno.... (Rafael Godoy) 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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kat1 (Moderator) says on Feb 25, 2008, 09:56: Hay gente que se pega de todo. engage brain before opening mouth 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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vicshere says on Feb 25, 2008, 09:56: it was on sale at the flee market that same day listo 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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jorgegdiaz says on Feb 25, 2008, 09:57: Kat, be careful on the streets with that jewerly you think is silver... Man with hole in pocket feel cocky all day. 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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kat1 (Moderator) says on Feb 25, 2008, 09:57: I remember too people going to the cemeteries and stealing the gold around some tombstone, even the flower vases.!!!! engage brain before opening mouth 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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Monpirri says on Feb 25, 2008, 10:02: It happens all over the world, Spain has the most incidents in this type of activity. Annette Taddeo for US Congress 2008 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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robi666 says on Feb 25, 2008, 10:08: They robbed the fuse switch on the high voltage line outside my finca. "I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth. A nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that never cheats, which is immense and without borders, where life is lived in the present." 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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ColombianoGringo says on Feb 25, 2008, 10:08: This type of thing is hardly limited to Latin America or other developing regions. Here are a few recent headlines from the Houston paper.
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wendell13 says on Feb 25, 2008, 10:14: Like others have said...it happens everywhere because of record high commodity prices
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El Polo says on Feb 25, 2008, 10:19: They used to steal all types of chit from my family finca, till we purchased 4 pure bred dobermans, nuff said...
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analyzethis1 says on Feb 25, 2008, 10:25: This type of nuisance is increasing daily out here west in Canada. When you're down and out, anything of value is a keeper! There are two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we receive, and the larger kind we feel for what we give. E.A. Robinson 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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NataliaV says on Feb 25, 2008, 10:53: It happened recently to my family in Cali. Right before Christmas....they didn't get a phone back for at least a few weeks! Grrr....
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Monpirri says on Feb 25, 2008, 11:08: And in England. Annette Taddeo for US Congress 2008 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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Alma del Norte says on Feb 25, 2008, 11:33: A rental property that I owned in England was broken into and all the copper piping removed. I replaced it with plastic - hah! La vida es una rutina 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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msaucey says on Feb 25, 2008, 11:56: It's definitely happening everywhere.... Town next to mine.... The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed. - CS Lewis 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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jorgegdiaz says on Feb 25, 2008, 11:57: Kat, do you feel better - or the same - now that you know this happens everywhere? Man with hole in pocket feel cocky all day. 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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tomtom33 says on Feb 25, 2008, 14:39: Thieves have been stealing bronze vases from cemeteries in the US for decades now. Damn glad I sold my cemeteries. I used to worry about that shit 30 years ago.
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CatGirl says on Feb 25, 2008, 15:49: Kat1: I can see many comments about the recent crack downs on copper theives in the US - first thing I thought of when I read your post. We just had a big bust in the the Bay Area CA ... Love and Time: the only two things that cannot be bought, but only spent 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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kat1 (Moderator) says on Feb 25, 2008, 17:49: i feel better now that is not a Colombian thing phewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!! so los ladrones estan por todos lados engage brain before opening mouth 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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miamimike says on Feb 25, 2008, 17:53: If you have reading and keeping up with World News, you would see this type of Salvaging for Copper, Bronze has been going on for the last Couple years. It is not "New" News unfortunately as the World Commodity price for Copper has doubled just in the last year. . Last week, they caught a Cubano who stole approx 100 In Ground Bronze Cemetary Flower Urns and sold them to a Miami Junkyard. $300 a apiece brand new. I buy every piece(legal) of Old Copper I can find for resale on the Auction. "Wait a minute. What did you just say? You're predicting $4-a-gallon gas? That's interesting. I hadn't heard that." -- Feb. 28, 2008 --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C. 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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Robert Jorge says on Feb 25, 2008, 21:56: I saw some pretty funny videos of copper thieves "riding the lightning". I normally don't get a laugh out of somebody dying ... but there is an element of justice when 2 guys are getting ready to cut down a high voltage electric line that supplies thousands of people electricity, and they get zapped. --"I believe in making the world safe for our children. But not for our children's children, because I don't think that children should be having sex." - Jack Handy 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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scotty says on Feb 26, 2008, 00:23: you know what they are doing around my city, they go into these new construction sites residential and commercial and rip out all the copper wires and pipes. Get Rhythm, when you got the blues. Johnny Cash 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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kat1 (Moderator) says on Mar 19, 2008, 13:58: Oigan.. the telephone lines have been stolen again AGAIN!!!!! I can't believe it !!!!!! hahha engage brain before opening mouth 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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analyzethis1 says on Mar 19, 2008, 14:36: Hey kat, is it cheaper to call your family on their cell phone? I heard that having a land line cost more than owning a cell. Is this right? There are two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we receive, and the larger kind we feel for what we give. E.A. Robinson 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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