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To: Coleus

We have people combing the neighborhoods looking for scrap to sell. Vacant lots are cleaner than they have ever been. Occasionally some idiot goes for a copper theft in a power company’s substation but that seems to be a self-correcting situation. So why are cities strapped for cash dumping all that money in the ocean?


4 posted on 09/05/2008 8:17:44 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (don't worry, they only want to take water out of the other guy's side of the bucket.)
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To: NonValueAdded

Around my parts, utility poles are being chopped down so the transformer case shatters upon crashing. Then the copper is removed. It’s a Michigan thing.


14 posted on 09/05/2008 8:31:11 PM PDT by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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To: NonValueAdded

So why are cities strapped for cash...etc...
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That is what is becoming of ships also. “they” figure it is cheaper to sink them than to sell them for salvage...Couple of years ago they were TOWING ships from Norfolk and other East Coast “graveyards” to Europe to be scrapped, with some of them being ‘returned’ because they weren’t clean enough..I also think the companies doing the salvage were getting them delivered for ‘nothing’....


15 posted on 09/05/2008 8:31:16 PM PDT by xrmusn ( True gun control is hitting what you aim at.)
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