ABSTRACT
‘They aren’t worth fixing,’ says the repair man. ‘They’re all smashed up. You can see where the thieves ripped out the tubing, the condenser coils, all that copper!
The air conditioners are looking a mess, and the cost of replacement will run into tens of thousands.
Geoff the head of security, says the thieves must have got up on to the flat roof via the fire escape. ‘The police probably won’t even ask the scrap merchants; the components are impossible to trace,’ he says. ‘But in future, we could try painting their replacements, illuminate them at night, and put them in a locked cage,’ he says.
‘Which?’ says his assistant, ‘The units or the thieves?’
