it hasnt reached that leavel here yet,well atleast out here in the country.we'll have folks drive by and stop in and ask "do ya have any scrap we can clean up for ya" this will happen about once a week.but if the cost of living keeps goin up and wages dont expect a lot more of this type behaver

 

i had a bunch of brass pipe and aluminum stolen out of the bed of my truck. Funny thing is i was going to give it to one of the homeless guys who comes by and takes the nickle refund soda bottles but someone saw it in the bed ( through the cap glass and took it) with the price being so high the junkies are in overdrive to get their money and a fix

 

big problem here, morons are getting killed trying to steal copper from live sub-stations, also they have now moved on to stealing memorial plaques.

 

Boston Ma.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/art...e_gold/?page=1


PE.
http://www.pe.com/localnews/rivcount...7.3ee3fc3.html


http://www.csoonline.com/read/020107/fea_metal-2.html

 

I think we can eliminate a lot of this in three simple steps.

1) Kill all drug dealers
2) Lock up drug abusers for 1-3 years min.
3) Kill any guard that brings drugs into a prison

 

Sheesh...a bit drastic, maybe rebo?


Copper is up around here. And you wouldn't believe how much copper I've got on the production floor. So far, no issues...but I'm watching.

 

Here in west Michigan some low lives stole the brass veterans grave markers last summer from the cemetery.

 

This is becoming fairly common in So Cal.

Thieves are even stealing fire hydrants, right off the street and they know how to do it properly.

At our new factory we had someone steal a $600 length of 6 inch copper piping that went up the outside wall. The time expended and the replacement part cost far more than they would get as salvage. We even had someone cut thru our chain link fence to steal $60 worth of pallets, jeez. Rhetorically speaking, if a thief asked me for the pallets I probably would have given them to him rather than having our fence cut.

Also the local water department must be having problems with thieves stealing those big water pipes that stick up out of the ground on many industrial parks. The one in front of us has had a heavy duty steel cage welded around the pipes.

In the news...Some one just last week stole a big rig full of fertilizer. When the truck was recovered later, the fertilizer was gone. Who would steal something like 50,000 pounds of fertilizer? the police said they did not think it was terror related. I think they said it was dry cow manure so other than being buried in it, I can't see a terror connection either.

I really hate thieves. They cost us more in time a trouble than what they gain thru their thievery.

Jim Henderson

 

In my part of the world it is the meth users stealing it.

 

My brother in-law does roofing downtown Nashville. He's been on the local news many times for stories about disappearing copper downpipes, flashing etc. They install it on a fancy church or historic building, come back the next day and do it again, and again.

 

This could be why they wondered about terrorism:

At 9:02 a.m. CST, the Ryder truck, which contained about 5,000 pounds (2,300 kg) of fertilizer and nitromethane mixture packed into the back,<SUP class=reference id=_ref-1>[5]</SUP> detonated in front of the north side of the nine-story Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. The blast destroyed a third of the building<SUP class=reference id=_ref-Terrorism_Info_0>[6]</SUP> and created a thirty-foot (9 m) wide, eight-foot (2.4 m) deep crater on NW 5th Street next to the building.<SUP class=reference id=_ref-FinalReport_0>[7]</SUP> The blast destroyed or damaged 324 buildings in a sixteen-block radius,<SUP class=reference id=_ref-FE_0>[8]</SUP> destroyed or burned 86 cars around the site, and shattered glass in 258 nearby buildings<SUP class=reference id=_ref-TI3_0>[9]</SUP> (the broken glass alone accounted for 5% of the death total and 69% of the injuries outside the Murrah Federal building).<SUP class=reference id=_ref-Safety_0>[10]</SUP> The destruction of the building left several hundred people homeless and shut down multiple offices in downtown Oklahoma City.<SUP class=reference id=_ref-USDJ_0>[11]</SUP>
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<SUP>(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing)</SUP>
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And, if you didn't notice, that was only 1/10th of the amount missing in your situation Scary, huh?

Let's just hope it was a poor farmer hoping to have good crops this year... or something like that...

 

meth heads............and thats the problem, they'll steal anything

 

Druggies in general.The guy I caught yesterday was wearing a hooded sweatshirt with the hood pulled up tight.With temps near 80.Who else but a dope head would do that? A buddy of mine had the truck he drives stolen.Cops found a crack pipe in it after it was rolled on it's side.There was nothing missing from the cab.They were after the 50,000 lbs wire mesh ( used in road construction) that was on the trailer.The only thing that saved the load was the dope head can't drive for snot.He tried to turn onto a road where a tractor with a 53' trailer simply will not fit.The truck sustained relatively minor damage and the load was unhurt.Cops caught the druggie but he was out on bail the next day.

 

Here in Las Vegas, latley entire streets will end up dark, because people are ripping the copper wiring out of all the street lights. It has been a pretty big deal so far, adding up to the hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage. In fact, I believe there are rewards out here, for anyone turning in info that leads to an arrest.

Damn, there are much easier, legal ways to make money.

 

i scrap its extra money but i do it legal! im in heating and cooling so i get scrap!