Weekly/biweekly Michigan legislative action thread
Posted on 02/16/2013 7:57:15 AM PST by shove_it
DETROIT (WWJ/AP) - The Michigan Department of Transportation says one-fifth of the lights along freeways in Metro Detroit aren’t working — and copper thieves are mainly to blame. [...] MDOT has identified the area around I-94, east of I-75, as one of the worst hit by thieves. “We are taking measures to try to keep the cabinets safe and secure, but for every move we make, the thieves come up with a counter-move,” said Morosi. [...} And those counter-moves are sometimes deadly. In October, a 34-year-old man was electrocuted at Putnam and Lawton, near I-96, while attempting to steal copper wire from a transformer...
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It’s nice to have a happy ending to this otherwise sad story.
Mich Ping
Who are they kidding? It’s against the law to steal so there has to be something wrong with this article. Nobody would steal anything in detroit (middle east comes to America) now would they? Of course not.
Hate to break it to ya’, bud. It ain’t Middle Easterners stealing the copper.
The fruits of Democrap economic policies in action. Coming soon to a city near you.
Can we all agree that it is racist to try to prevent the theft of the copper wire?
Roger that but the last time we flew through there, I thought we were in islamabad. On the other hand, the guy that got fried wasn’t too bright. Well, he was for a few seconds.
Detroit looks more like Lord of the Flies every day.But that’s to be expected when Rat politicians and Marxist unions march hand in hand for 40 years.
Hire some snipers.
GSC...
Your State of Ma has a few cities not far behind, Ergo Downtown Springfield, I know both Detwaa and Springfield, and Springfield is coming right up along side Detwaa...
“Detroit looks more like Lord of the Flies every day.”
More like the abandoned kingdoms in “The Lord Of The Rings”; you can see vestiges/ruins where great men once built great things, and now it is reverting to what was there before those great men came (deer, squirrels, etc.).
Shoot them. When the damage done exceeds by magnitudes the value wrought, it is a crime against society, and has to be stopped by any means.
Detroit is a City on Death’s door, thanks to Rat politicians and Marxist unions.
This should be tagged “Third-World News”.
The fruits of Democrap economic policies in action. Coming soon to a city near you.
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Baltimore comes immediately to mind.
” a 34-year-old man was electrocuted at Putnam and Lawton, near I-96, while attempting to steal copper wire from a transformer...”
Always make sure the power is off first. If a transformer is warm and hummin’, chances are its live. :-/
Imagine what the thieves could do if they put that much effort into something legitimate.
“This should be tagged “Third-World News”.
Good idea. Done.
A few years ago some college students stole a bunch of stop signs for dorm decorations. This resulted in a couple of fatal collisions. The students were charged with and convicted of murder. I don’t recall the “degree” but it was probably pled to manslaughter. They went to prison. It occurs to me that any fatalities along the dark sections could and should be prosecuted as murder. Perhaps a few high-profile prosecutions might stem the tide.
When the cost of copper was really high, I gave all the scraps from a building I built to one of the laborers. The scrap people wouldn’t buy it. I had to provide him with a note and a copy of my receipt so he could sell it. The buyer was afraid to be prosecuted for receiving stolen goods. Perhaps that’s another way to stop the thefts. I know it works with pawn shops as they used to be the fences for all the local thefts. As far as I know pawn shop fencing has stopped too.
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