Little did I know that it will now pay off the mortgage on my house, LOL!
I’m glad that they’ve finally invented a crime that is self-executing.
They are stealing copper like crazy here in Vegas.
Save your pennies kids, they are worth more than 1 cent.
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"If they didn't have any place to sell this stuff, they wouldn't steal it," he said of the thieves.Kinda like illegal immigration; fix Mexico and there's no reason (well, a reduced reason maybe) to come here ...
Where I live in LA. you have to have a picture I.D. to recycle anything now. Just started this year.
At least the thieves can get fried stealing copper from substations. What really frosts me is the dopers that steal our nation’s bronze war memorials. That should be a capital offense.
Someone stole the large brass Texas emblem off the State’s marble monument at the south end of Farwell, Texas but then again they stole my brass eagle off my American flag during 9-11. Watch your monuments and flags!
There’s a guy in Houston that runs TV commercials, paying cash for your scrap metal.
Perhaps special wire could be manufactured for the utilities that would make it easily identifiable as such, by means of stranding pattern or embedded cores of other metals. Such wire could only be accepted for recycle if presented by an authorized utility agent.