Copper theives are stung hard!
Copper theives are stung hard!
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Just released on the news today, police busted a copper theft ring that had 14 tons of stolen wire and other electrical materials. Also nabbed were guns, stolen cars and even a guy trying to sell them cell-phone activated bombs that were demonstrated by hiding one in a toy!
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RE: Copper theives are stung hard!
Second time in two months.
We are now in panic mode as they haven't discovered the $16k of cables strung under the cars.
We need a law because the recyclers are all complicit in these thefts. Finger prints and a photo should be required for anyone bringing in scrap.
I guess it will take these thieves killing a lot of people with a theft before anyone acts.
Keith Cress
Flamin Systems, Inc.- http://www.flaminsystems.com
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Near here there were a few houses deemed unsafe and left empty because their backyards began sliding into the river. One house was broken into multiple times and one break-in was to steal all the copper.
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Then for the motor leads on submersibles, they connect a chain to the ends with the lugs attached and attach it to their trailer hitch, then drive off, snapping the cables underground. This makes it difficult to extract the pumps afterwards! many of them are forced to abandon the wells and dig new ones, new pumps, new controls etc. The economic damage to farmers is appalling, which will ultimately be reflected in our food prices.
And as to the issue of them getting electrocuted, the new twist to that now is that they were just calling up the utility and request a disconnect! New rules were put in place to stop that, but that too will have an economic impact by making it more difficult now for service people to do emergency repairs.
Side note to this issue; last year in Fresno an abandoned well was going to be put back in service because of the drought, but had problems. So they did a camera inspection and found human bones at the bottom. Probably a copper thief caught by the farmer...
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The cops told a scrap yard to let everyone know they were going to take ill gotten scrap. This fuels thieving. Then the cops decided they would run the operation until 24 tons of ill-gotten copper came in.
They then run this and nab a bunch of thieves but dang!! This means that 24 tons of victimized people and companies had to essentially fund this. People who might not have had anything stolen otherwise.
Keith Cress
Flamin Systems, Inc.- http://www.flaminsystems.com
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Still, it satisfies our need for revenge...
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Talk about market forces huh!
(This is in Detroit MI)
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