South Africans rip up cables with bare hands to try and stop U2 gig

The police think that it's copper thieves who just happen to have pinched the cables around the FNB stadium in Johannesburg, coincidentally putting the U2 gig there next week at risk.

I suspect it's much more likely that the intention was to try and put the U2 gig at risk, and taking the cables was a means to an end.