[Donna Lee Nardo]

Does anyone think this can be more than simple theft? Any sinister uses for copper? Bombs?

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[Republicus2001]

Sounds like our neighborhood crackheads stealing recyclables

a slumlord downtown complained that he couldn't bring his bldg to code because the tweakers kept busting into the drywall to pull out the copper electrical -

[Poohbah]

Does anyone think this can be more than simple theft?

Hmm...

Any sinister uses for copper?

Bracelets that supposedly cure arthritis, but really don't?

Bombs?

Shaped-charge liners are made out of copper, but the amount needed is only a few ounces...

[Duramaximus]

Cornering the market on pennies by counterfeiting them. Just a guess. [/sarcasm]

[Prodigal Son]

Sounds like something I'd have done in my younger years.

[1rudeboy]

I used to work for a steel and aluminum fabricator, and we caught some warehouse employees loading full coils of aluminum (stickers from the producer and all) into a truck. I don't know what the most painful thing was, learning that employees were stealing, or that they were only getting 7 cents a pound from the scrap-yard. (early 1990's)

[Petronski]

My nephew tells me of a tale of a student at his high school who stole a calcium rod from the chemlab. The perp was caught an hour or so later during another class when his pants pocket caught on fire.

I don't know enough about chemistry to understand it, but damn if that isn't funny, especially at a Catholic High School. Bwa ha ha ha ha....

[MD_Willington_1976]

Pocket money...People steal copper it all the time, I have heard 2 darwin award stories of people stealing copper bus bars and copper wires from power utilities.

#1 An Ontario (in Canada) man was increasing his courage level with some alcohol one night and decided to enter a substation to steal some copper bus bars that were in a stack.

Result: Crispy stinky black ball of soot laying at the base of a substation transformer, seems he was slow roasted all night long.

#2 A russian man climbed a utility pole to steal a copper transmission wire ( I dont know why they used copper thats just what it was ).

Result; Crispy stinky humanoid soot blob attached to power pole and ladder.

[TaxRelief]

Seriously though, a good use for copper is to trick world leaders into thinking they own a lot of gold... Iraq's 'gold' mostly copper

[LibKill]

Copper is worth more at a recycler than aluminum. Junkies and crackheads have been known to steal copper cable from electrical company supply yards.

Sounds like employee theft to me.

[Migraine]

Could this be the famous Copper-Clapper Caper that Johnny Carson and Jack Webb were going on and on about?

[blam]

We used to have our gold and platinum 'targets' used in chip-making stolen.

[scouse]

This evening on the Keith Olberman show (MSNBC) he told a story of a guy in British Columbia who tried to steal a long copper cable. Unfortunately the cable was still energized and he was hit with a couple of hundred volts and had his shoes blown off...among other things.

[aruanan]

Does anyone think this can be more than simple theft? Any sinister uses for copper? Bombs?

Nope. It was probably just some janitor taking it to a recycling center.

[Cindy]

YAHOO! News - Search Term: "COPPER"
http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?c=&p=copper

Some of the YAHOO! Search results as of this minute include the following:


2. Would-Be Thief Has Electrifying Shock 
Reuters  -  Oct 08 7:48 AM
A man was recovering in a Vancouver-area hospital on Tuesday after his apparent attempt to steal a roll of copper wire ended up giving him a 27,000-volt electrical shock.
In Yahoo! News > Oddly Enough > Reuters Oddly Enough

3. Would-Be Canadian Thief Has Electrifying Shock 
Reuters  -  Oct 07 1:00 PM
A man was recovering in a Vancouver-area hospital on Tuesday after his apparent attempt to steal a roll of copper wire ended up giving him a 27,000-volt electrical shock.
In Yahoo! News > World > Category

4. Would-be thief gets a shock 
Reuters  -  Oct 07 1:01 PM
A man is recovering in a Vancouver-area hospital after his apparent attempt to steal a roll of copper wire ended up giving him a 27,000-volt electrical shock.
In Yahoo! News > Oddly Enough > Reuters UK

[Cindy]

NEWS SOURCE:

Released: October 3, 2003
Contact: Mona S. Rowe, 631 344-5056

"Statement on Theft of Copper At Brookhaven
National Laboratory"
http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/2003/bnlip100303.htm

[Cindy]

INFO Ping

[FairOpinion]

" 150,000 pounds " ?!

This is not something somebody puts in their pocket!

It's either an inside job and/or the place is very poorly guarded.

In most places you can't even remove equipment, without showing an approval slip to the security guard, signed by a manager. So how can someone load this on a truck, and nobody questions him?