dash wrote:
The way I’d go about stealing wire is take a high powered rifle and shoot through the wire at some point, on both ends, then just roll it up off the ground after it falls down.

People don’t restrict themselves to high-tension cables. Here in the UK, our trains are becoming delayed more and more often by the theft of signal cables, to the degree that the rail companies are now starting to post anti-cable-theft propaganda posters in their stations.