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Spain bans short-haul flights where you can take a train (www.euronews.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

People steal the copper wires everywhere.

I know someone that works in the rail industry with building and maintenance.

It's apparently very important to electrify the wire as soon as you are done with whatever you were doing. Otherwise someone will know that it's not electrified and they will steal it. And the company/state will lose quite a lot of money in raw materials (the overhead wires are expensive as fuck), delays and further work.

Edit: This isn't in some third world country or anything either. This is in a rich first world country that's in the top 10 in terms of HDI and at least top 20 of pretty much every other positive index.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Why not wait for the thieves to start working and then electrify ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿผโ€โ™‚๏ธ

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Because you would have to create some kind of surveillance team to find the thieves and it's generally unethical to kill people. The electricity in those wires won't just hurt, they will kill someone for just getting slightly too close.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Hey dude, my dad is working for the train system. Do you want to be the one cleaning human being parts? Not them.