[Down the Pub]

in my job we have numerous ocassions where cable gets nicked, sometimes it's fresh stuff on drums - not exactly stuff you can just carry away (usually gets chopped into short lengths and gets carted off).

or on a few of our sites, they have just pulled it out live - 415v and 100A+ up your jacksey - no thankyou. but they know what they're doing, they cut through the armour and into one phase and the nuetral and spike it which in turn trips the protection breaker and thus making the cable dead, which can then be chopped and carted.

and with the cables we use there is a lot of copper to be had - and landfills are hard places to watch due to locations.