‘Fishermen’ Fishing For Cable
By Rosli Abidin Yahya

Bandar Seri Begawan - Residents of a water village claimed that there was something fishy going on. They allege that telephone cable thieves disguised as `fishermen' were on the prowl.

The concerned residents told the Bulletin that some of the `fishermen' would pretend to fish by the bridge before stealing cables.

They claimed that after the `fishermen' made off with the cables, there were disruptions to the telephone service in the village. Many villagers had to use mobile phones to communicate because it would take months to get the telephone lines fixed in the village, they said.

"We have alerted residents from other water villages to be suspicious of people fishing by the bridges," they said, adding that scrap metal dealers should also be monitored so that it would be easier to identify the culprits.

It is also possible that thieves of telephone cables may have sold off the stolen goods to scrap metal buyers at border towns by transporting them via mouse trails, they said. -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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