Reply to post: Re: "A terrorist or foreign agent would have been free to plant explosives ..."

Hapless engineers leave UK cable landing station gate open, couple of journos waltz right in

Alan Brown Silver badge

Re: "A terrorist or foreign agent would have been free to plant explosives ..."

"The site was simply only made vulnerable to local petty theives and vandals"

two words: Copper theft

Not petty and usually fairly dramatic in effects on infrastructure sites even if the amounts removed are small.

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