Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: gideony@microsoft.UUCP (Gideon Yuvall) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Telephone Cable "Rustling" in the Wild West :-) Message-ID: Date: 10 Oct 89 03:33:59 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: gideony@microsoft.UUCP (Gideon Yuvall) Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 9 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 439, message 7 of 8 Similar things happened in Sinai: the Bedouin would pull out Israeli 'phone-lines, and sell off the copper. One of their lawyers argued that it was unclear who owned Sinai, and that therefore nobody could outlaw this practice. He won the case; after that, the Bedouin would be charged, not with stealing the copper, but with smuggling it into Israel. Gideon Yuval, gideony@microsof.UUCP, 206-882-8080 (fax:206-883-8101;TWX:160520)