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Florida Looters Caught Stealing POWER POLE in Jacksonville as 3 Million Struggle Without Electricity
Daily Mail UK ^ | 9/14/2017 | Daily Mail Reporter

Posted on 09/14/2017 6:10:08 AM PDT by sevinufnine

Two looters were stopped by Jacksonville police while attempting to steal a power pole in the wake of Hurricane Irma. The highly conspicuous thieves were caught red-handed with the pole on top of their SUV. The looters also attached a flag, made of what appears to be t-shirts, to the back of the pole for safety. It is not clear what they intended to use to pole for. Twitter users noted they would have struggled to sell it for recycling considering it is obviously a stolen power pole.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: crime; irma
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To: bert
Aluminum poles can be harvested with a chain saw. The poles are worth $.50 a pound or so.

Or, if fitted properly, can be used as pontoons.

41 posted on 09/14/2017 7:21:19 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: VanDeKoik

Not in my book.

Looters should be shot. I would prefer they wear burkas so it didn’t become a racial discussion.


42 posted on 09/14/2017 7:23:12 AM PDT by dangerdoc
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To: Caipirabob
Looters should be shot or hung if apprehended at the scene of the crime. It’s an entirely different scenario in a life or death emergency/societal crisis situations akin to martial law. They are animals - nothing but animals. Yes, I saw the photo. Hang them.

We used to hang horse thieves on the spot. Now we have millions without power and looters/scrappers are taking stuff freewill.

Retired sheriff David Clarke said in times of crisis, looters should be met with deadly force. Their actions are anti-soeciety

43 posted on 09/14/2017 7:28:33 AM PDT by Dustoff45 (Pass the spicy catsup. We've got Trump now.)
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To: arthurus
"Selling power poles or anything else metal is easy at many scrap yards. If it is recognizable it goes to the compactor immediately."

Yeppers..... Most of them seem to a bit on the shady side... They don't cooperate much with the local fuzz..

44 posted on 09/14/2017 7:32:34 AM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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Scrap metal salvagers. Dumb as a rock. Too much work for Amish....


45 posted on 09/14/2017 7:33:29 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: Pollster1

Heineken man was the best!


46 posted on 09/14/2017 7:37:56 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: sevinufnine

I’m guessing the definition of ‘looting’ has been expanded because the criminals taking the telephone pole are white.


47 posted on 09/14/2017 7:41:57 AM PDT by GOPJ ("$3 Million Dollars 'PER DAY' is spent to incarcerate criminal illegals.That's $1.2 Billion a year.")
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To: thefactor

Well actually I wouldn’t need pictures because the only type to loot a power pole are in that picture. Call me racist but that was my first image. Two good ‘ole boys. Never thought for a moment they would be “youths”.


48 posted on 09/14/2017 7:42:24 AM PDT by FreedomNotSafety
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To: TnTnTn

Lol. That’s racist. But give the Amish credit they may be the smarter group in the art of looting I live in a place where “junkers” are a common site on trash day. These two are from central casting.


49 posted on 09/14/2017 7:46:03 AM PDT by FreedomNotSafety
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To: tumblindice

That Taurus wagon of the Griswold’s moved that Christmas tree well.


50 posted on 09/14/2017 7:46:35 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: VanDeKoik
Something tells me the number of posts screaming about looting on FR will be far shorter on this one.

Turns out you were wrong.

I suggest ropes around their necks, tied to the top of that pole. Then put the pole back up.

51 posted on 09/14/2017 7:50:29 AM PDT by IndispensableDestiny
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To: sevinufnine
They’re a pain to sharpen.

No problem, just find another chain saw to steal. And since the power is out anyway, steal some more copper out of some unused a/c units. No one is home anyway.

52 posted on 09/14/2017 7:51:42 AM PDT by Dustoff45 (Pass the spicy catsup. We've got Trump now.)
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To: VanDeKoik

White looters definitely think outside the box, I’ll give ‘em that.


53 posted on 09/14/2017 7:52:41 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: wally_bert
"Hey Clark. Image and video hosting by TinyPic S***ter's full!" ..... Now I wend my way to the enticing thread above, about how our good friends to the south are disappointed in us, in that we have finally objected to them sending their tick-like Cousin Eddies to our country.
54 posted on 09/14/2017 7:55:11 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: sevinufnine

They are probably leftist mainstream media moonbats.  (After all, those types are always talking about how they took a pole, and that proves they are obviously right.)   (Remember Hillary "alt.nostrils", and all the poles they took for her?)

55 posted on 09/14/2017 7:58:11 AM PDT by Songcraft
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To: jeffersondem
These gentlemen probably found this pole in the street and loaded it to prevent somebody from running into it and causing an accident.

Jesus, the pole is round. It could have been rolled to the side of the road parallel to the curb where it would not have posed a danger to anyone.

Even as sarcasm this is weak.

And BTW, maybe the two shirtless dudes at the curb are bi-lingual. Or speak Arabic.

56 posted on 09/14/2017 7:59:20 AM PDT by 4Runner
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To: sevinufnine
I took a photo, but not sure how I’d post it here.

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57 posted on 09/14/2017 8:12:10 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: sevinufnine

With all the trees that were knocked down we’ve got a lot of stumps. I bet any one of them is smarter than these two guys.


58 posted on 09/14/2017 8:17:53 AM PDT by tbpiper
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To: VanDeKoik

White looters are the worst.


59 posted on 09/14/2017 8:21:19 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan
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To: sevinufnine
Here are some more pole looters in action.   (Notice that the one on the left is from the Texas hurricane, and the one on the right is from the transgender skirter pole-pulling society.)


       



These deep state data gatherers/leakers were obviously just at the wrong poles, at the wrong time, in order to be able to catch the two pole thieves.  (Luckily the sheriff was able to nail those two thieves and curb them.)


      



Some climate change celebrity experts (shown below) have determined that this episode all revolved around a human-caused, southerly or northerly "polar" vortex hurricane pilfering, (depending on whether that was the north pole or the south pole those guys were pilfering).


      

60 posted on 09/14/2017 9:14:23 AM PDT by Songcraft
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