Copper thieves hit condo project *NJ

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JohnJ0906 said:
Don't need to be an addict to be a thief, either.
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jrannis said:
And you dont need to be a thief to just be an addict
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Both of you are correct.

However, Addict + Thief - Income + Access to Copper = Negative Copper

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Thief + Access to Copper connected to High Voltage - Common Sense = Dead Thief
 
i say it was a bunch of apprentices or someone that has done it or does it for a living. It alaways amazed me how little attention people pay to me when i walk into a building or mall wearing a tool belt and multi meter. Usually in the bigger towns or cites like Hoboken or Morristown or NYC. Most people dont even ask you anything. So who who really notice a bunch of guys that appered to be working?
 
sparky 134 said:
In Illinois once material has been installed, the material becomes the property of the building. .
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In general isn't that the reason we can't remove our materials after install if we haven't been paid?
 
new illinois law

new illinois law

Begining on 1-1-08 in Illinois scrap yards must, and do photocopy your drivers license on any load over $100.00 dollars. I believe this is a good start to the scrap-theivery problem.
 
In South Carolina they must make a copy of you DL/State ID. Plus there is a law on the books now that if you have over (I think this is correct) 25lbs of copper you better be able to prove where it came from. We have had numerous cases of people stealing condensors. The YWCA here had around $10K of damage over a few hundred in copper and aluminum. A friend's parents had a couple they know go to church, then come home to water running out from under their house. They stole all the piping and buthered the electrical. My atttoney's son closed on a house on a Tuesday. On Thurday the crew there to renovate found all the plumbing gone. Major $$$ to fix each one. Hard to have any sympathy when you hear the thieves getting fried playing in sub stations.

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A couple months back, over $50K in wire was stolen from the streetlights for walkways of downtown Portland Maine! No one knows anything about it.
 
emahler said:
don't smile...just hang your head sheepishly in shame...that was bad
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I guess I'm still sick....if I can't pull off a cheap one liner, I'm definately sick.
 
One of my bigger competitors suffered about $30K work of 750MCM stolen right out of the conduit last year. It was a big strip mall and they got all his secondarys that were pulled in and terminated. The primary had not been terminated yet, and they just pried the transformer doors open, cut the ends off, and used his bobcat to pull the out in the middle of a Saturday while other trades were on the job. Of course nobody saw anything...
 
A truck carrying human hair to a wig factory overturned on an interstate ramp.





Last reports said that police were still combing the area. :rolleyes:
 
LarryFine said:
A truck carrying human hair to a wig factory overturned on an interstate ramp.

Last reports said that police were still combing the area. :rolleyes:
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A tractor trailer carrying jackknives jackknifed on the highway, spilling its contents of jackknives. Apparently the driver wasn't too sharp.
 
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