Why not to steal live copper cabling:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21195390/

JAS

You've gotta hand it to the German cops for fingering the right perp.

What a shocking story! I wonder if he had a hand in other copper thefts...?

Among the necessities for copper wire thieves: a voltmeter

does that come with the neat zipper bag of lockpick tools, the pistol-grip pointy gizmo, and the digital readout pin number generator attached to the rainbow ribbon credit card interface?