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Metal Thieves Target Graves (MI)
Ann Arbor News/MLive ^
| 07/22/07
| Art Aisner
Posted on 07/22/2007 3:19:32 PM PDT by Kieri
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I'm afraid my outrage and disgust blanked out my ability to think of keywords. This is so despicable.
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posted on
07/22/2007 3:19:38 PM PDT
by
Kieri
To: Kieri
No can/bottle type deposit required when purchasing copper yet everyone is tripping over themselves trying to recycle it.
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To: Kieri
From what I’ve read most people who steal copper use the money mainly for Meth.
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posted on
07/22/2007 3:26:17 PM PDT
by
SoldierMedic
(Rowan Walter, 23 Feb 2007 Ramadi)
To: Kieri
Ahh, yes, the compassion over illegal aliens and illegal drug use continues to pay such incredible dividends.
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posted on
07/22/2007 3:28:10 PM PDT
by
kingu
(No, I don't use sarcasm tags - it confuses people.)
To: kingu
I was wondering what this thread had to do with illegal immigration. Thanks.
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posted on
07/22/2007 3:32:24 PM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: I see my hands
Theft of manhole covers got to be a problem in Russia, until they started making new ones out of non-recyclable plastic.
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posted on
07/22/2007 3:33:44 PM PDT
by
kylaka
To: Kieri
Unsophisticated criminals loot businesses in the dead of night a few hundred dollars at a time.
Sophisticated criminals loot businesses in broad daylight in a court of law and take so much money they can spend a few hundred dollars at a time on haircuts while running for President.
As far as I’m concerned there isn’t a dime’s difference between them.
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posted on
07/22/2007 3:34:37 PM PDT
by
CGTRWK
To: Kieri
Six people in southeast Michigan were killed from either falls or electrocution while trying to steal live wires in 2006, according to the Michigan Public Service Commission, which in June issued a statewide alert about the increase of copper utility thefts and the potential safety risks to the thieves, employees and the public.Payback burns.
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posted on
07/22/2007 3:39:32 PM PDT
by
madison10
To: Kieri
In our area, it’s worse. Many veteran’s flag-holders - the ones which indicate which war the veteran fought in - were stolen. They got some back when the perps went to trade them in at a local scrap yard.
Absolutely despicable!!! >:-(
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posted on
07/22/2007 3:47:40 PM PDT
by
sneakers
To: Kieri
Man they gotta buy those drugs!
To: Kieri
I just bought a case of ammo today and OUCH! Damn metal prices are driving the price up.
To: Kieri
This same thing always happens in third world toilets, such as Mexico. Hmmmm. Stealing the metal Americans don’t want to steal?
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posted on
07/22/2007 5:06:23 PM PDT
by
GingisK
To: kylaka
...until they started making new ones... Great use for nuclear waste...
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posted on
07/22/2007 5:07:33 PM PDT
by
GingisK
To: Kieri
Until America’s scrap buyers have to live under Federal Rules, similar to those in the Pawn Shop industry, We are screwed.
Scrap Buyers can pay in CASH, not get ID from sellers, NOT EVEN ASK THE SELLER’S NAME, and then KEEP everything that they “bought”.
It doesn’t matter whether that the Metal was Government Property or Granny’s grave marker. Scrap Buyers have immunity and can’t be expected to keep records.
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posted on
07/22/2007 5:13:27 PM PDT
by
PizzaDriver
(an heinleinian/libertarian)
To: Kieri
Until America’s scrap buyers have to live under Federal Rules, similar to those in the Pawn Shop industry, We are screwed.
Scrap Buyers can pay in CASH, not get ID from sellers, NOT EVEN ASK THE SELLER’S NAME, and then KEEP everything that they “bought”.
It doesn’t matter whether that the Metal was Government Property or Granny’s grave marker. Scrap Buyers have immunity and can’t be expected to keep records.
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posted on
07/22/2007 5:13:38 PM PDT
by
PizzaDriver
(an heinleinian/libertarian)
To: Kieri
Actually, metal prices are up because environmentalists are blocking mining everywhere.
To: 1rudeboy
Hmmm... There has to be a clever way to work abortion into this too.
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posted on
07/22/2007 5:17:50 PM PDT
by
Redcloak
(The 2nd Amendment isn't about sporting goods.)
To: Kieri
We had a scrap yard that got into a lot of trouble buying old cars, it seemed the bank had liens of 3 or 4 cars they bought. What started out as junk wound up costing them several thousand dollars.
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posted on
07/22/2007 5:41:35 PM PDT
by
amigatec
(Carriers make wonderful diplomatic statements. Subs are for when diplomacy is over.)
To: Kieri
I remember when crack hit Detroit, all the aluminum siding as high as someone could reach was being ripped off every house on the lower East-side.
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posted on
07/22/2007 5:55:38 PM PDT
by
Mikey_1962
(The last Americans to allow unchecked immigration...... were Native.)
To: PizzaDriver
FBI should go after the scrap dealers. There was massive theft of copper wire from the old AT&T transmitting site antennas (miles of wire) at Ocean Gate, NJ. Site is working towards the Historical Site designation, perhaps the last one in existence - monument to overseas communications. Just makes you sick!!!
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