That group of people pried open four or five well pits and cut over a hundred meters of cable into four pieces, packed it up and transported it away. The tiles on the well pits were not put back but thrown to the side. Later, the power bureau sent people to cover the well pits with tiles.
● Chengnan Power Supply Bureau
"The transformer needs to be replaced," the driver said.
Analysis: 500 yuan/meter cables
Do you remember the opening scene of the movie "Crazy Stone"?
"Why did you cut the cables?" asked Master Feng.
Wearing uniforms, driving repair vehicles
"I remember this time there were still five people, I don't know if they were the same batch doing the work, but the driver was the same one who always stayed in the car," said Master Fang.
Master Fang, the school security guard, said he remembered that last Wednesday at 9 o'clock in the morning, that group of people came for the first time, driving a yellow engineering repair vehicle which looked very similar to an ordinary pickup truck. On the body of the car, it was written "Engineering Repair" and "Power Bureau 95598 Emergency Repair Hotline."
This group appeared twice in a week
Feng recalled that the driver had short hair, wore glasses, was on the thin side, and his accent sounded like a local Hangzhou person.
Yesterday, when interviewed by a journalist, Han Ning from the Production Technology Department of Chengnan Power Supply Bureau said that after repeated verification, no repair team was dispatched to that area last week.
"We are from Chengnan Bureau"
"Generally, our regular staff will definitely wear work credentials. If residents discover similar situations in the future, we suggest immediately calling our 95598 hotline to confirm or report it to the police," said Han Ning.
"We have four or five registered repair teams in Chengnan Bureau, none of them carried out tasks at this time and place, so it is highly likely that someone disguised themselves as power repair personnel to steal the cables," said Han Ning.
Residents saw this whole process.
The driver fell silent.
There were five people in total. One driver dressed casually stayed in the car. Four people wearing orange uniforms and safety helmets got out of the car, pried open the well pit, and started working. After about thirty minutes, they drove away.
Han Ning said that the price of the cables was around 500 yuan per meter, so more than a hundred meters would be worth over 50,000 yuan. Now copper prices are high, so they probably sold it for money.
Yesterday, Hangzhou Electric Power Bureau stated after repeated verification: No repair team was ever dispatched to this neighborhood!
"The electricity usage around the neighborhood was not affected, and we did not detect any abnormal conditions such as power outages in our power system, so what was taken should be unused old cables," said Han Ning. "This group is so familiar with the situation here, it's possible they worked here before."
The incident happened on Kaiquan Road No. 68, on the sidewalk in front of a primary school within the Kaiquan Garden residential area.
Just last Friday, a similar scene occurred in the eastern part of the city in Kaiquan Garden - a group of people dressed in uniforms and driving an engineering repair vehicle claiming to be "power repair workers" cut over a hundred meters of underground cables in Kaiquan Garden and brazenly moved them away.
Many residents of the neighborhood witnessed this scene.
Driver: "We are from Chengnan Bureau."
Possibly stolen and sold for money
Master Feng kept a close eye on the situation and called Hangzhou Electric Power Bureau. The other party replied: There was no repair record for this neighborhood, but they still needed to verify!
Last Friday, that group came again, at the same time, around 9 o'clock in the morning.
Call 955598 or report to the police
"They cut the cables, but our electricity was not affected, so what they cut should be backup cables. I thought this couldn't just be done randomly, so I went to ask the driver," said Master Feng.
● Reminder
A gang of thieves disguised as moving company workers, in broad daylight, used a large truck to move an entire household empty.
On the sidewalk, every 30 meters or so, there was a well pit 2 meters long and 1 meter wide specifically for laying underground cables. The well pits were covered with tiles.
Although this group's deception was sophisticated, their act of cutting cables with large pliers still made some residents "feel something was off."
Han Ning said that the stolen cables were likely high-voltage copper core cables, used for sub-divisional power transmission in neighborhoods.