Something of Interest

 
I thought this picture might be of interest to you in the U.S. If I asked you to guess what it was hanging on the electrical lines you can probably tell that these are cans. But why? Well, those cans are full of rocks so that if someone tries to steal the lines the people in the community will hear it and stop them. These lines are stolen, not to sell, but to enable the thief to have his own electricity. I forget what the actual percentage is but in Bangui, a city of 800,000, less than 20% have electrical or running water. So I guess these lines would be very tempting. I couldn't help but think of people stealing copper lines to sell here at home.