NHEC Customers Lost Power Due to Vandalism?

According to Channel 9, WMUR, New Hampshire Electric Cooperative had power outages due to copper wires being cut at their sub-station, supplying power to 2,900 customers in Lincoln.

Why would criminals want to steal copper??!!

In the interview from WMUR, cut wires like that could be very dangerous with the potential for house fires.

In MY house, the power went out this week due to the storm and it WAS dangerous because no one had any technology!  If you have a teenager and he/she is bored, fuggetaboutit.  We all went to sleep at 4:30 in the afternoon!