Prices started coming back up on copper, for the last few months it hasn't been worth enough to most people to risk stealing for.
We need to make a law that keeps the price of copper low so these things don’t happen. >S<
Seriously, my son’s boss told him that if he didn’t call for a locate and he cut the phone cable, to just get off the machinery because it would belong to the phone company as would everything the company had.
We accidently cut a phone cable and they wanted to charge us a couple thousand dollars a minute that it was down but they had their cable on our private property and it was supposed to be and documented to be in the right of way and it was too shallow, to boot.