There will be lamp posts….but only good for the dogs. What with thieves on a rampage stealing the copper wires. With the ongoing astronomic rise of the prices of precious and base metals, thieves are targeting the copper wiring in the lamp posts.

Park officials said more than a mile of copper wiring has been stolen from lampposts in the East River Park and along highways, costing the city thousands of dollars and leaving many areas without proper lighting to curb more crime.

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And I thought these happens only in India. It was rumoured that Reliance employed local goons to safegourd their cables when they were laying the country wide fibre optic network, not just to curve the loss of cables from thefts, but to prevent the delays due to such loss.