An engineer alerted the native police to apprehend a person who was cutting power cables in the course of a Nonthaburi highway, casting parts of it into darkness over a distance of more than 2 kilometres. At round 3.45pm yesterday, the young man, identified as 30 yr outdated Chotipong, was caught red-handed along with the snipped aluminium energy cables stretching 50 metres, cable-cutting gear, and the automobile he used in the operation.
Arthaporn Prakot, an engineer who works for Nonthaburi’s freeway division, said that frequent energy outages had been occurring on several roads. Upon investigation, it was discovered that the theft and sale of energy cables were inflicting these issues, creating inconvenience and elevating the possibilities of accidents. The gentle outage spanned roughly 2 kilometres alongside the highway because of this incident.
The thief managed to keep away from being electrocuted through the act because the lighting system is automated centithief – meaning power is dispersed along the cables as the system determines it is growing dark. During midday, electrical energy is not released, which is when Chotipong selected to cut the cables, reported KhaoSod.
The Royal Thai Highway Department calculated that for the yr 2023, public property theft including energy cables, electrical energy transformers, and different traffic signal tools, amounted to a staggering loss of more than 30 million baht (US$852,043).
Following his seize, Chotipong was taken for interrogation and legal action. During his detention, Chotipong’s spouse visited him and revealed that her husband had borrowed a vehicle from her older brother to gather scrap for sale because that they had run out of cooking gas at residence.
She expressed surprise at the fact that her husband had ended up being arrested for stealing cables. Secrets disclosed that her husband had been suffering from melancholy but could not seek medical help as a result of monetary difficulties. If it weren’t for the gasoline scarcity, her husband wouldn’t have gone out to collect scrap and wouldn’t have ended up in this predicament..