Posted on 07/08/2008 3:01:55 PM PDT by OrangeDaisy
I travel to work fairly early, usually before 6am. Last fall, when it's dark till probably 7, I saw a guy with a POS truck that had a piece of perfectly good guardrail in it from the side of the road...and a cop behind him. Truck was still there on my way home. His mistake was doing it on an interstate. There's plenty on back roads that aren't really traveled tween 1 and 5.
IIRC, some of the first New Orleans residents to return after Katrina were the copper thieves. One of 'em was shot dead by a cop who thought the guy had a pistol stuffed in his pants. Turns out it was a *hacksaw* handle that was protruding from the idiot's belt. Good shootin', officer.
The most outrageous metal theft to date, though, has to be where all the aluminum bleachers were swiped from a schoolyard or park (can't recall the location).
Some wag proposed him for the Darwin Award.
Locally, we had a nitwit open a cabinet-type transformer doo-hickey and actual cut a portion of the wire out, before it fried his dumb ass and killed power for some 500 customers.
The news reports are full of these idiots.
I was stupid in my younger days, but obviously not that stupid, as I've made it to my older days.
I think there are organized rings of thieves for the big projects like the bleachers or perhaps the cell tower, but the key to lowering the rate is to pursue the crooked dealers.
There are more and more of these incidents. I think it is the company we are forced to keep because of a porous border. We'll have a Nation in Mexico's image. Not a pretty thing.
I don’t think it’s all Mexico’s fault. There are greedy fools everywhere, be they Hispanic, Anglo, black, or Asian. All they see is quick cash.
I'm 58 years old. I never saw this sort of thing until now. The Mexican invasion is the only real change in demographics in that entire period. The invasion peaked in the last ten years, just like these events.
Yes, but ten years ago, commodity prices were much lower, and the temptation to steal was lower.
We need a test. Let us deport them all, and see what happens.
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