Dont you just love the EU

[VHG]

See link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-18243271

[hc4361]

sp, a massive black market in cable. That is why thieves have been killed trying to steal it from electricity substations and thieves have been digging up the roads.

I suggest you do some background reading re Romania's role in the EU.
Start here:
http://ec.europa.eu/s...p?catId=508&langId=en

[hc4361]

And here is report on cable thefts for sp
http://www.dailymail....2-000-volt-shock.html

[brionon]

AB Editor--Don't you know ? The EU is to be blamed for Everything-innit ?

[d9f1c7]

SP there is also a huge demand for scrap metal and the prices are high, that's why they have recently changed the laws for scrap merchants etc.

[missnemesis]

Are we still allowed to call it the "black" market then? ;-)

[bazwillrun]

"We all wait with bated breath for the next crime to be committed by a black man, where no doubt we will be treated to the yawnsome, "So much for the benefits of immigration" thread, marching towards the News section, with ill-deserved confidence. "

no ones forcing you to read the posts are they ?!

[bazwillrun]

"re we still allowed to call it the "black" market then? ;-) "

SP will be complaing in a minute no doubt !

[sp1814]

I had absolutely no idea that scrap metal was so valuable. I remember watching a (very very old) episode of Steptoe & Son which revolved around a story of whether they should take delivery of some 'dodgy lead'.

In the end, I think they bought it, and then it turned out it was from their own roof (it rained at the end of the episode).

I thought we'd gone beyond that!

[hc4361]

Don't you read the news, SP? Churches having the lead from the roofs stolen, the railings stolen; telephone exchanges, railway lines, electric substations having cable stolen; manhole covers and drains stolen; supermarket trollies by the van loads gone. Its costing companies hundreds of thousands of pounds.

And don't forget the memorial plaques stolen, causing heartache to many people.

[d9f1c7]

Yes SP you seem uncharacteristically uninformed here!