NYC thieves now stealing cooking grease

New York Post ^ | June 10, 2012 | MICHAEL GARTLAND

[ConservativeStatement]

City thieves are getting slipperier.

They’ve taken to ripping off the rancid cooking oil left at the curb by restaurants — as the list of strange “commodities” sought by sticky-fingered opportunists grows.

In a sputtering economy, the price of resale goods like cardboard, scrap metal, old appliances and even grease has spiked — and criminals have taken notice.

Used cooking oil cost next to nothing four years ago. Now it goes for 38 cents a pound. Cardboard and other paper goods went for about 1 cent a pound two years ago. Now it costs 6 cents.

“It’s really crazy out here with this grease,” said Eddie, a truck driver who picks up used oil in Brooklyn. “I went to one of my stops, and I actually saw a guy pumping grease out with a vacuum cleaner.”

[Ditter]

House vacs have a paper bag that the dust, dirt, animal hair etc. go into...... not a container that would hold a liquid. sheeesheee I guess you don't do much house work!

[Caipirabob]

Illicit trafficking in Cholesterol has skyrocketed under ROTUS and MOTUS...