Is this nation wide?! - Page 2

frenchblueC2 · 06-06-2008, 11:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Tygerr

Honestly though, a foot of copper pipe.

Is a foot even worth it? What a bunch of assholes.

A foot here and there from a bunch of places adds up for someone who needs the money to fund their drug habit...

bensenvill · 06-06-2008, 11:57 AM

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Originally Posted by MOMO

yeah, its been like that since 2002 or so... copper worth more than penny...

this has ALWAYS been a problem... with current econimic statuses its just garnering more news.

I was on a job site about 8 years ago doing public sewer renovation work in a bad portion of chicago. turned out, meh, 50 years ago or something they decided to run many copper cables through this sewer line. So we had a machine that was pulling all this thick copper cable out of the system.

10 minutes after we started, and I wish I had this filmed, it was a zombie attach. dozens of people start coming out of the woodwork, attacking us to get these cables, pulling it directly from the machine [very dangerous]. we kept trying to tell them, they could have it, just wait for the machine to stop... it was a madhouse... anyways that escalated to people starting a dozen or so fires in the street trying to burn the rubber off the cables... it was very surreal, looked like a movie.

Lunar Limelight · 06-06-2008, 12:02 PM

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Originally Posted by bensenvill

this has ALWAYS been a problem... with current econimic statuses its just garnering more news.

I was on a job site about 8 years ago doing public sewer renovation work in a bad portion of chicago. turned out, meh, 50 years ago or something they decided to run many copper cables through this sewer line. So we had a machine that was pulling all this thick copper cable out of the system.

10 minutes after we started, and I wish I had this filmed, it was a zombie attach. dozens of people start coming out of the woodwork, attacking us to get these cables, pulling it directly from the machine [very dangerous]. we kept trying to tell them, they could have it, just wait for the machine to stop... it was a madhouse... anyways that escalated to people starting a dozen or so fires in the street trying to burn the rubber off the cables... it was very surreal, looked like a movie.

Woah. Thats pretty nuts.

thousandlegs · 06-06-2008, 12:08 PM

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Originally Posted by bensenvill

10 minutes after we started, and I wish I had this filmed, it was a zombie attach. dozens of people start coming out of the woodwork, attacking us to get these cables, pulling it directly from the machine [very dangerous]. we kept trying to tell them, they could have it, just wait for the machine to stop... it was a madhouse... anyways that escalated to people starting a dozen or so fires in the street trying to burn the rubber off the cables... it was very surreal, looked like a movie.

what a bunch of fu*ktards. there are only three things you can get for free, love, death and trouble.

JScullin · 06-06-2008, 12:09 PM

It's happening a lot in empty foreclosed homes. In some cases the area is so notorious for it that the tenants who are being foreclosed upon are allowed to stay for free just so someone occupies the house.

Lunar Limelight · 06-06-2008, 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by JScullin

It's happening a lot in empty foreclosed homes. In some cases the area is so notorious for it that the tenants who are being foreclosed upon are allowed to stay for free just so someone occupies the house.

Yeah thats the most common but it seems to happen in more populated places. I'm amazed somehow they took it from our house without anybody knowing. Since the houses are all mushed together. We always stay up till 2 or 3am anyway.

skater · 06-06-2008, 12:21 PM

It's happening worldwide, actually. I saw a report of people killed while trying to steal wire from railroad signal lights in Poland. Here in DC there was a vacant house that was discovered to have water pouring out of it, and the problem turned out to be that thieves had stolen the pipe.

XplosivePlushToy · 06-06-2008, 12:22 PM

Copper is currently worth about 3.60 a pound. This works out great, because I have a buttload laying around I'm about to get rid of (~300lbs). Hooray!

GR02XR · 06-06-2008, 12:40 PM

And since the salvage places don’t care where you got it from, it’s only going to get worse, just like the catalytic converter thefts.

branchedout · 06-06-2008, 12:54 PM

while this has been going on country wide for years, it hasnt been that much of an issue locally in south east florida (yet), though we're now seeing a rash of people drilling into gas tanks and stealing your fuel, and that's only going to get worse. sigh.

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