Who *buys* this stuff? Can’t they do like a background check or something? I’m kind of not being sarcastic.
I'm only guessing, but I'd guess that this is illegals doing the jobs Americans won't do, and Democrats helping them out in the legislature.
Solving the metal theft problem in the state, Rakoncza said, lies with local ordinances and ultimately statewide legislation.
Like maybe making theft illegal or something?
The problem has been so bad in Patterson that some of the farmers banded together to hire a security guard to look out for suspicious activity.
“The security person was going around and watching things and apparently came across a vehicle that had some people in it. He asked them what they were doing and these people pulled a gun on him. He quit after that,” Santos said.
I’m guessing they went cheap when they hired the security guard...
Solving the metal theft problem lies with providing solid legal protection for property owners shooting on sight when they see someone unauthorized on their property. It's not saving the community of law abiding citizens any money when they arrest these criminals, provide them with public defenders, imprison them at $50,000 a year, hire parole officers to pretend to monitor them, and then repeat the process as soon as they re-offend, which will be quickly after they're let out of prison. I doubt most first-time convicts do any prison time at all.
Its because of wartime demands for copper, any penny made before 1982 is actually worth more in its weight alone, its very bad in Hawaii where thieves strip out streetlight wiring and immediately after a new home is built they go in and strip out the copper plumping. here in Alaska I have seen first hand metal scrappers trying to con themselves into my property where I have tons and tons of cast aluminum frames from old diesel trucks, old boilers and spools of wire. There needs to be some tougher laws about where the metal comes from but yes most of the time the buyers could care less because they are making good profit.
Shoot on sight, for trespassing and grand theft. The same fate should await the taggers who spraypaint their words and symbols on items that don’t belong to them.
Illegals need the money. Employers aren’t hiring as many, any more.
Poor illegals! They just can’t get a break.