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Stop signs replace some Oakland traffic lights to deter copper theft
CBS ^ | 05 18 2024 | Da Lin

Posted on 05/18/2024 9:27:50 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

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1 posted on 05/18/2024 9:27:50 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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Why we can’t have nice things.


2 posted on 05/18/2024 9:29:29 AM PDT by Angelino97
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Mad Max is here.

Time to start shooting looters

3 posted on 05/18/2024 9:46:06 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam only understands Death and Pain. Give it to them. )
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Those signs are aluminum, I believe.


4 posted on 05/18/2024 9:46:21 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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Several years ago, in Florida some college students stole a stop sign to hang it in their dorm room. A driver was killed by a car that didn’t stop as the sign was gone. The students were hunted down and sent to prison for manslaughter. If someone is stealing traffic lights the same thing should apply. Hunt down and send to prison.

To deter copper theft in Florida you must submit your driver’s license to sell copper. More than one or two sales will earn you a visit. Only some businesses are allowed to recycle things like air-conditioners because they were so frequently stolen. When I took a bunch of copper in I took paperwork showing I was renovating a rental. I have been told by metals buyers that the incidence of stolen copper has fallen to undetectable levels. (Oh, undercover operatives will try to get buyers to buy obviously stolen copper. Publication of this had immediate positive effects.) When I take stuff in they look up my account and see how much I’ve brought in and over what period.

The reason we have crime at all is society allows it. When a black man where I worked was murdered and the family started making public accusations of racism the police had suspects in custody within hours by asking the cell tower operators to tell them which phones had been at the murder location between the night before and the probable murder time. They could, if they wanted, use a similar technique to solve probably eighty percent of crimes. But they don’t. They just take reports and compile statistics because the authorities don’t give a flying fart about protecting the public. Unless whatever happened is going to turn political.


5 posted on 05/18/2024 9:47:59 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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They could, if they wanted, use a similar technique to solve probably eighty percent of crimes. But they don’t. They just take reports and compile statistics because the authorities don’t give a flying fart about protecting the public. Unless whatever happened is going to turn political.

Yep. Peasants murdering peasants is of little concern to The Crown.

6 posted on 05/18/2024 10:03:31 AM PDT by null and void (Everyone on all sides a conflict will be happy to lie to you, except our side, of course!)
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I had a plumbing business and of course scrapped a lot of copper and brass, before California changed the laws I was at a scrap yard that had so much new or near new beautiful copper and brass products and wiring that parts of it resembled a material warehouse.


7 posted on 05/18/2024 10:09:47 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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Hell just remove all the signs increase the speed limit to 65 and thin the herd.


8 posted on 05/18/2024 10:11:13 AM PDT by BubbaJunebug ( )
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We are witnessing civilizational collapse in real time. It just gets worse and worse.

I remember thirty or forty years ago when so many of our bronze historical plaques disappeared. They had been erected by civic groups over the previous 75 years. Stolen by thieves for the metal content.


9 posted on 05/18/2024 10:11:42 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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Sounds like a typical 3rd world cesspool. Pure chaos.


10 posted on 05/18/2024 10:15:15 AM PDT by Reno89519 (If Biden is mentally unfit to stand trial, he is mentally unfit to be president. He needs to resign.)
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“The reason we have crime at all is society allows it.”

That’s what bothers me the most. We elect pols that allow it. The pols cave in to usually bogus claims of “police brutality” by minorities. Police are defunded. There is no southern border and the drugs flow in freely. People will do anything to get the money for their next fix. So the copper disappears and nobody is sent to jail.

Your explanation of how Florida solved the problem offers some hope, but we need tough pols and police like that all over the nation. Without that, complete collapse is coming.


11 posted on 05/18/2024 10:15:39 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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Hey, if this works, maybe Newsome can implement state-wide to reduce electricity demand?


12 posted on 05/18/2024 10:16:19 AM PDT by Reno89519 (If Biden is mentally unfit to stand trial, he is mentally unfit to be president. He needs to resign.)
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“Neighbors said city workers removed the all the traffic lights in the last week and replaced them with four-way stop signs“

Doing this is preferable to putting a few thieves into jail? How may thieves does anyone think there are? We are not an adult society anymore.


13 posted on 05/18/2024 10:17:15 AM PDT by TalBlack (I We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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They do this sort of thing in South Africa.


14 posted on 05/18/2024 10:18:05 AM PDT by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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Bookmark


15 posted on 05/18/2024 10:21:32 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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“The reason we have crime at all is society allows it.”

Exactly. Singapore has none of these problems.


16 posted on 05/18/2024 10:24:49 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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Action and reaction in South Africa. I like there anti-carjacking solution...


17 posted on 05/18/2024 10:33:09 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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The far leftist commie/nazi politicians have destroyed Oakland

once a nice enough city, it has degenerated into an outhouse cespool and it is dangerous to visit, too


18 posted on 05/18/2024 10:44:03 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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Have no idea about the rest of the country but near me about 4 years ago or so I noticed the 4 way stop in my residential section had more and more cars drift right through without stopping if no cars seemed to be around. First one or two and then every day as today.

I had the feeling someone looked around and did it and the others thought “I can get away with it if he can”. I am not singling out any race, nationality or ethnic group in referencing the monkey see, monkey do effect. Everyone but me seems to be doing it now.

So, with the loss of stoplights how can Oakland manage the many t-bone accidents and people mangled or killed in them?


19 posted on 05/18/2024 10:45:05 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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How do you go from a 1st world country to a 3rd world country so fast? DemocRATs.


20 posted on 05/18/2024 10:49:25 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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