High-Voltage Fences For Zapping Would-Be Copper Thieves

coondoggie writes "It may be a gimmick or the ultimate answer, but a California city this week okay-ed a draft ordinance that would let businesses install 7,000-volt electric fences to protect sites from rampant copper thieves. As reported by the Sacramento CBS station, the reaction from one business owner to the ordinance says it all: 'It'll be a little fun to watch one of these guys get electrocuted holding my fence trying to rob me.'"

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Re:If they want to stop the copper thieves...

[Baloroth]

Start making the recyclers who pay cash for copper keep records and start prosecuting them for receiving stolen goods.

So you would punish the innocent with more paperwork and regulations along with the guilty? That doesn't sound very appealing to me. Besides, it's not like thieves wouldn't lie anyways, which would give the recyclers who take stolen goods plausible deniability.