rooster59 Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 Video: Nabbed! Gang cut down 100m of TOT phone cables worth 100,000 baht Image: 77kaoded Thai media 77kaoded featured the arrest of a gang of five contractors of a private internet cable company who were caught red handed cutting down Telephone Organization of Thailand cable in Krabi. Their apparent leader Surasak, 30, from Hat Yai in the far south was taken on a reconstruction in handcuffs to the Na Thai Road in Muang district yesterday morning after the arrests the previous day. The media even put together a video to mark the occasion. Also arrested and admitting the crime were Phitak, 37, Krissada, 18, Faifoo, 30 and Krittaphop, aged 27. Police took a pick-up, four pairs of pliers, a bamboo ladder and 100 meters of telephone cable valued at 100,000 baht into evidence. The TOT had called in the police after witnessing the illegal activity on Thursday. Source: 77kaoded -- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2020-12-05 - Whatever you're going through, the Samaritans are here for you - Follow Thaivisa on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canopus1969 Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 I have to admit there are perfect examples on how to point to one's crime 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daffy D Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 Pity they didn't cut through some power cables Anyway good opportunity to replace the cables underground 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardColeman Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 Since Thailand imports loads of low paid grafters to work the hard jobs in the sun, my vote is before prison they enforce them re-installing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PETERTHEEATER Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 Presumably the 'cables' are Fibre optic data carriers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
how241 Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 6 minutes ago, PETERTHEEATER said: Presumably the 'cables' are Fibre optic data carriers. I thought the fiber optic cables were not worth anything...I thought only the copper electric wires had value. I guess I am wrong. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiekerjozef Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 4 hours ago, rooster59 said: Police took a pick-up, four pairs of pliers, a bamboo ladder and 100 meters of telephone cable valued at 100,000 baht Expensive pair of pliers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pattayadude Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 (edited) 12 minutes ago, spiekerjozef said: Expensive pair of pliers. I'd say the bamboo ladder... Edited December 5, 2020 by pattayadude Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlfHuy Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 Sh.. , I was already hoping to buy some cable second hand on Lazada. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bluesofa Posted December 5, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 5, 2020 24 minutes ago, PETERTHEEATER said: Presumably the 'cables' are Fibre optic data carriers. Looking at the photo the cable are multi-pair copper cables, perhaps 100 or 200 pair, but difficult to say how many. The cables on the concrete floor in the video look to be maybe 20/50 pair. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justgrazing Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 19 minutes ago, bluesofa said: Looking at the photo the cable are multi-pair copper cables, perhaps 100 or 200 pair, but difficult to say how many. The cables on the concrete floor in the video look to be maybe 20/50 pair. Would they be used for 'phone and internet use .? I always thought that heavy multi core copper cables were used for electricity .. but I'm no telecoms or internet engineer .. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneMoreFarang Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 These crimes wouldn't work if nobody would buy these very special cables. Hopefully the police will follow up where they planned to sell those cables. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesofa Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 6 minutes ago, Justgrazing said: 28 minutes ago, bluesofa said: Looking at the photo the cable are multi-pair copper cables, perhaps 100 or 200 pair, but difficult to say how many. The cables on the concrete floor in the video look to be maybe 20/50 pair. Would they be used for 'phone and internet use .? I always thought that heavy multi core copper cables were used for electricity .. but I'm no telecoms or internet engineer .. Oh ye with dyslexia!???? I wrote 'multi-pair', not 'multi-core'. Yes, multi-core is used for electricity supply cables, to allow for flexibility. For an analogue (normal voice) telephone or fax line it needs one pair of wires from the phone/fax all the way to the telephone exchange. Multi-pair means, say, ten subscribers with ten different phone numbers need ten pairs of cables. Internet and fibre-optics is another kettle of fish entirely. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OneMoreFarang Posted December 5, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 5, 2020 5 minutes ago, bluesofa said: Oh ye with dyslexia!???? I wrote 'multi-pair', not 'multi-core'. Yes, multi-core is used for electricity supply cables, to allow for flexibility. For an analogue (normal voice) telephone or fax line it needs one pair of wires from the phone/fax all the way to the telephone exchange. Multi-pair means, say, ten subscribers with ten different phone numbers need ten pairs of cables. Internet and fibre-optics is another kettle of fish entirely. So now they transport fish through these cables? I am confused. ???? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justgrazing Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 1 minute ago, bluesofa said: Oh ye with dyslexia!???? I wrote 'multi-pair', not 'multi-core'. Yes, multi-core is used for electricity supply cables, to allow for flexibility. For an analogue (normal voice) telephone or fax line it needs one pair of wires from the phone/fax all the way to the telephone exchange. Multi-pair means, say, ten subscribers with ten different phone numbers need ten pairs of cables. Internet and fibre-optics is another kettle of fish entirely. Thank you Mr Sofa you are a veritable ceaseless fountain of knowledge .. J G will get a smack across the head offa the flock for making such a schoolboy error .. but I'm intrigued why do people put fish in a kettle .. won't it make the tea taste a bit 'well fishy .. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesofa Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 7 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said: These crimes wouldn't work if nobody would buy these very special cables. Hopefully the police will follow up where they planned to sell those cables. True. However the cables are sold for scrap, not reused. Therefore the value is purely for the weight of the copper cable without any insulation. It's usually scrap dealers who tend to buy them, making tracing virtually impossible, as they know the copper will be melted down to be reused. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesofa Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 2 minutes ago, Justgrazing said: Thank you Mr Sofa you are a veritable ceaseless fountain of knowledge .. J G will get a smack across the head offa the flock for making such a schoolboy error .. but I'm intrigued why do people put fish in a kettle .. won't it make the tea taste a bit 'well fishy .. Ha ha, no prob. There again I was a telecoms engineer in a previous life. With those fish - it does make subsequent cups of tea tastes odd. You put me in my plaice there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesofa Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 7 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said: So now they transport fish through these cables? I am confused. ???? Hence the term 'upstream' - ha ha! source: http://www.telecomabc.com/u/upstream.html 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justgrazing Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 2 minutes ago, bluesofa said: Ha ha, no prob. There again I was a telecoms engineer in a previous life. With those fish - it does make subsequent cups of tea tastes odd. You put me in my plaice there. Sprats OK .. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoDinosaw Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 57 minutes ago, bluesofa said: True. However the cables are sold for scrap, not reused. Therefore the value is purely for the weight of the copper cable without any insulation. It's usually scrap dealers who tend to buy them, making tracing virtually impossible, as they know the copper will be melted down to be reused. Back in the 70's the US had cables from their seismic monitoring station on Doi Suthep running all the way down to the Consulate on the river in town. Two Thai men would come along in the middle of the night, run up 2 telephone poles and cut off a length of cable and disappear. This happened so regularly that they had a small specialist detachment to replace the cable. The US was listening for atomic tests in China. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dddave Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 1 hour ago, OneMoreFarang said: These crimes wouldn't work if nobody would buy these very special cables. Hopefully the police will follow up where they planned to sell those cables. Scrap dealers worldwide have little conscience. In the US, druggies pry bronze memorial plaques off monuments and graves and saw limbs off bronze statues...scrap dealers know exactly what it is but pay the scumbags half the value and quickly melt it down so it's untraceable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanadaSam Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 8 hours ago, rooster59 said: Police took a pick-up, four pairs of pliers, a bamboo ladder and 100 meters of telephone cable valued at 100,000 baht into evidence. BIB took everything into custody except the sharp knives or whatever they used to CUT the cables with. It will get thrown out of court. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesofa Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 8 minutes ago, CanadaSam said: BIB took everything into custody except the sharp knives or whatever they used to CUT the cables with. It will get thrown out of court. How do you work that out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Dwyer Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 16 minutes ago, CanadaSam said: BIB took everything into custody except the sharp knives or whatever they used to CUT the cables with. It will get thrown out of court. What do you think the pliers were for ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanadaSam Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 Do you really think pliers, no matter how big, could possibly cut through that size of wire? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesofa Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 15 minutes ago, CanadaSam said: Do you really think pliers, no matter how big, could possibly cut through that size of wire? Perhaps it could be a Thai>English translation error, or even poor reporting of what the tools were. They could possibly have been large cutters or specialist cable cutters that a journalist would have no understanding of. They were described as "a gang of five contractors of a private internet cable company," so they knew what to do. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Tracy Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 There is such a thing as a fish kettle. Stops your tea getting stinky. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotchilli Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 16 hours ago, how241 said: I thought the fiber optic cables were not worth anything...I thought only the copper electric wires had value. I guess I am wrong. Whatever they were worth it wasn't worth it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scammed Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 On 12/5/2020 at 4:27 PM, OneMoreFarang said: These crimes wouldn't work if nobody would buy these very special cables. Hopefully the police will follow up where they planned to sell those cables. no, there is nothing special with these cables beside they contain a metal that sells for x baht per kg at any recycle factory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneMoreFarang Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 4 hours ago, scammed said: On 12/5/2020 at 4:27 PM, OneMoreFarang said: These crimes wouldn't work if nobody would buy these very special cables. Hopefully the police will follow up where they planned to sell those cables. no, there is nothing special with these cables beside they contain a metal that sells for x baht per kg at any recycle factory So where else are these not so special cables used? If they would come i.e. from a factory which is demolished then I am sure the scrap dealer would have a receipt for it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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