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Posted on 08/15/2007 3:44:32 PM PDT by george76
Nolan Accused Of Stealing 33,000 Pounds Of Metal.
Attorney General John Suthers said Timothy Allan Nolan pleaded guilty for violating the Colorado Organized Crime Control Act. He was indicted by a grand jury this year for allegedly stealing nearly 33,000 pounds of metal from businesses in Denver, Longmont and Northglenn.
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Guilty ?
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2006 Darwin Award Nominee: Man electrocuted while stealing copper wire.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1718048/posts
Copperheads.
That’s really a considerable pile of copper metal. How much copper is in an average house? 100 lbs of plumbing and 100 lbs of wiring? 160 houses?
Can we imagine 33,000 pounds of copper and other metals ?
yikes.
Well, I can imagine it, but what are we talking about in terms of how much time & effort it took to gather it together? Was this from stripping out houses and some overhead power lines or did this guy find 500 lb pigs at a smelter or major metal supply place?
According to:
http://www.copper.org/education/c-facts/c-home.html
An average single-family home uses 439 pounds of copper.
In an average single-family home, you will find about:
195 pounds - building wire
151 pounds - plumbing tube, fillings, valves
24 pounds - plumbers’ brass goods
47 pounds - built-in appliances
12 pounds - builders hardware
10 pounds - other wire and tube
a foot of 1/2” type “L” (medium) copper tubing weighs .285 lbs/ft. (seems high to me, but WTH, I never weighed it!)
So the 151 lb “average” is 529 feet, but there’s prob some 3/4” in there so there’s maybe 425 ft 1/2” tuning and 60 or so ft of 3/4”.
Nearly 200 lbs of wire..?
Talk about a Metalhead
The same perp got out of prison just last year after serving a sentence for taking 5 cent returnables from NY and cashing them in for a dime in another state.
As he was being surrounded, he shouted, “you’ll never take me alive, coppers!”
He was talking to the pipes sticking out of his stolen shopping cart.
LOL
“you’ll never take me alive, coppers!”
He was talking to the pipes sticking out of his stolen shopping cart.
BAHOC!
I think the big problem with this guy is, too many joints.
Thanks, I’ll be here all week. ;’)
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