HVAC antitheft Tool/Equipment Cage - Oxide00 Project #1

[acourtjester]

I was at the LWS and the guy said people are stealing leads off welder's trucks for the copper. I can not believe the cops can not track these guys at the local scrape yards. They make you show ID when you sell scrape. If a guy shows up with 200 pounds of bent up tubing or wire somebody has to smell a rat there.

Really officer I was walking down the road and this fell off a truck that drove by.

[everlastsupport]

The good side for me, I know the new local scrape yard guy. And fixing his 6x12 HD metal trailer. Bought a 1'x6'x1/4 diamond plate for $6 last trip. Normal get it all free, but I had to have it.

Bad side for me. I had a number of cables in the back of my truck (for golf cart batteries, about 10 all 3 feet long I was gonna cut down). Went in a store in a rough part of town that day, only place I stopped. That night went to get the cables, there were two there. I asked my son if he unloaded them when he pulled the batteries from the truck. He said no. Then it dawned on me what happened.

I can't believe it's that bad, but seems it is.

[Oxide00]

Ugh get this, yesterday in the paper there was a report about 100 manhole covers gone missing around the city. Some buffoon is using them to increase weight/payout at the junkyards around town. The city has started welding them down to prevent this from happening.

[DaveO]

...about 100 manhole covers gone missing around the city

Doesn't that suggest there's some funny business going on at the scrap yard end, too. If 100 covers show up, turned in by a guy who is clearly not a city employee, somebody should start to smell a rat.

There's a lot of effort that goes into that kind of theft. Too bad we can't harness that effort into something helpful. But the payoff is there, and in many cities property crimes don't get the same attention as personal crimes.