It was never amusing , the man is a fucking disgrace . <| sep |> Can you cite your sources ? <| sep |> They should anticipate something like this . It ' s kind of crazy , I work in the construction industry as an architect , and part of my legal responsibility is to assess risks when taking on a new contract . One of the first things that I have to do is assess the risk of property being damaged by thieves , and then put in place the appropriate security if something is damaged or stolen during the contract , and it ' s found in court that I didn ' t do enough to secure the very valuable and attractive equipment , then I would be found to be at fault by the court and would most likely have to pay quite a sum in damages . Why isn ' t this the case with Shell ? They have a pipeline carrying a very valuable resource , I ' m positive that if this were a first world country they would have had to carry out a risk assessment and put in place the proper security once it had become evident that people were intent on trying to damage the pipe to syphon off oil . However , because this is Nigeria we just say it ' s the people ' s fault and write them off . Bullshit . And before you say construction and an oil pipeline are not analogous , they are , I have worked on large infrastructure projects that have spanned across countries , yet I ALWAYS have to carry out risk assessment and put in place security as well as other measures to prevent theft and property damage .