Posted on 08/09/2022 9:55:41 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The Fremont Police Department said Monday that it shut down a recycling company buying stolen catalytic converters, putting an end to a “major pathway for criminal activity.”
After a year-long investigation, the department established that the Arrow Recovery recycling company at 46025 Warm Springs Blvd. was buying stolen catalytic converters, the department said in a news release.
To confirm the operation was illegal, an undercover officer sold cut catalytic converters to Arrow Recovery marked or etched with "stolen" or other markings suggesting they had been illegally obtained and the company repeatedly purchased the stolen devices.
Catalytic converters have increasingly become a valuable currency for thieves as the emissions-control devices are filled with precious metals such as platinum, rhodium and palladium that are worth more than gold. While gold was trading for $1,815.00 an ounce on the commodities market as of Tuesday, according to Bloomberg, palladium hit $2,248.89 an ounce.
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The thieves did it to a guy working at a grocery store a couple of miles from where I am right now.
Stoke it from his truck.
While he was working.
Gee, how many people would not had their cat stolen in a six month timeframe, maybe only spend six months investigating next time.....
They were recycling. Seems anti-environmental to shut it down.
stole
I’m gonna have to turn autocorrect off.......
Pass a law for deadly force against vehicle tampering.
so it took a year.....
They are very quick at it.
You know, I worked very hard for the things I have. Some of
them cannot be replaced. If someone is trying to take my
things, I’m not going to be a happy camper. If I see
someone trying to take other people’s property, I have no
qualms with the owner of that property shooting them dead.
These smash and grab operations going on today, just start
shooting them dead. Back, front, side,... I don’t care.
Just do it. Pretty soon this nonsense will stop.
Looks like Arrow Recovery Group is permanently closed.
There’s even a pic of a guy in front of a load of converters.
The police of today are not the police of yesterday year.
Dragnet is long long ago.
Today’s police or a little more than revenue agents.
That is an increasingly common opinion.
Theft of property is theft of the money that bought the property, which is theft of the TIME it took to earn the money to buy the property, which is theft of a thing of infinite worth because it cannot be replaced.
Trading the infinite worth of a man’s time with the infinite worth of the life of a thief starts to look a whole lot like and apples-for-apples proposition.
So, yeah; shoot ‘em dead and take ‘em up into the Diablo hills as fodder for the feral hogs.
They steal time from your life.
Also know as “life energy”.
And nowadays it is even worse with the long delays at repair shops and delays in getting parts. I called the local dealership for a recall on one of my cars “This procedure is estimated to take about one hour, but plan on leaving the car all day.”
It was a 6 week wait to get it done!
I wonder - some metal vent pipe and metal tape - would that do the trick so at least one could drive their car to work until it gets repaired?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2R7RetKNH8&t=162s
Flexible metal pipe and hose clamps!
Unless White people are involved it will be racist for anyone to do jail time or to even call this a crime. Catalytic converters are inherently racist and inequitable.
Aww, what a shame.
“:^)
Thanks for those thoughts. Interesting way to look at it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2R7RetKNH8
My Catalytic Converter Was Stolen! $20 Fix
317,926 views Jun 27, 2021 Today I did a quick and easy fix for the Jeep’s stolen cat, and now we can temporarily get it back on the road.
I used a flexible pipe like this: https://amzn.to/3Ih5AqX
And these type of clamps: https://amzn.to/3Jz9i0J
Replacement Converter For a Permanent Fix: https://amzn.to/3ijjzli
****** Yes you can drive without the stolen catalytic converter. If your state has automobile inspections, then you are screwed. Eventually. No inspections? Then drive on! Or drive to the junkyard, buy a stolen one, have it welded in and installed. :)
It will cost you $20,000 in lawyers when you shoot the catalytic convertor thief. Far cheaper to pay him $200 and have it welded back in. Write this off as the cost of living in California — or -— it could be Anywhere USA. Anywhere meth heads and other thieving scum reside.
This has become more of an issue with the preponderance of SUVs; they are just easier to get under. When camping, we used a regular car (though it was a tight fit for four) because it would be unattended in a parking lot overnight - specifically to prevent this (and it worked).
Good idea
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