Cubist
Still wavin'
We once arrested two lads for stealing a length of cabling. They'd dug it up from a trench that must have been getting on for 75 metres long on a building site and in interview they admitted that this had taken them about four and a half hours to do. They expected to get about fifteen or twenty quid for the copper in the cable, but would have had to spend another hour or so burning off the outer. (this was late 80s) When I pointed out that they had been grafting very hard for what would at best have been less than two quid an hour each they both agreed it was a lot of work for not much reward, but at least they got to set their own hours.