NY Times Reported: Bushnell, the maker of optical equipment for hunters, sells a “trophy camera” that tracks deer after dark. Mounted to a tree and armed with a motion detector, the camera silently snaps infrared pictures of passing animals that don’t see a thing. A New York City police detective and a sergeant in the transit bureau have five of these cameras. Not to track deer, but rather a different sort of game — one that was abundant 20 years ago before it disappeared, only to recently return.
Subway copper thieves.
The officers rig the cameras to poles in the tunnels and elevated tracks of the subway system. And they wait. Later, they check the data in the camera, sometimes finding what they are looking for: a clear and time-stamped image of a man walking along a dark track. The copper thieves break into restricted areas behind the tunnel walls and spend long hours sawing through the cables, one foot at a time, until they reach the limit of what they can physically carry outside and take to a scrap-metal company for sale. For a foot of copper, which can weight eight pounds, the thieves can get upward of $24, the police said.
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