[Kieri]

I'm afraid my outrage and disgust blanked out my ability to think of keywords. This is so despicable.

[I see my hands]

No can/bottle type deposit required when purchasing copper yet everyone is tripping over themselves trying to recycle it.

[SoldierMedic]

From what I’ve read most people who steal copper use the money mainly for Meth.

[kingu]

Ahh, yes, the compassion over illegal aliens and illegal drug use continues to pay such incredible dividends.

[CGTRWK]

Unsophisticated criminals loot businesses in the dead of night a few hundred dollars at a time.

Sophisticated criminals loot businesses in broad daylight in a court of law and take so much money they can spend a few hundred dollars at a time on haircuts while running for President.

As far as I’m concerned there isn’t a dime’s difference between them.

[madison10]

Six people in southeast Michigan were killed from either falls or electrocution while trying to steal live wires in 2006, according to the Michigan Public Service Commission, which in June issued a statewide alert about the increase of copper utility thefts and the potential safety risks to the thieves, employees and the public.

Payback burns.

[sneakers]

In our area, it’s worse. Many veteran’s flag-holders - the ones which indicate which war the veteran fought in - were stolen. They got some back when the perps went to trade them in at a local scrap yard.

Absolutely despicable!!! >:-(

[Anti-Bubba182]

Man they gotta buy those drugs!

[School of Rational Thought]

I just bought a case of ammo today and OUCH! Damn metal prices are driving the price up.

[GingisK]

This same thing always happens in third world toilets, such as Mexico. Hmmmm. Stealing the metal Americans don’t want to steal?

[PizzaDriver]

Until America’s scrap buyers have to live under Federal Rules, similar to those in the Pawn Shop industry, We are screwed.

Scrap Buyers can pay in CASH, not get ID from sellers, NOT EVEN ASK THE SELLER’S NAME, and then KEEP everything that they “bought”.

It doesn’t matter whether that the Metal was Government Property or Granny’s grave marker. Scrap Buyers have immunity and can’t be expected to keep records.

[PizzaDriver]

Until America’s scrap buyers have to live under Federal Rules, similar to those in the Pawn Shop industry, We are screwed.

Scrap Buyers can pay in CASH, not get ID from sellers, NOT EVEN ASK THE SELLER’S NAME, and then KEEP everything that they “bought”.

It doesn’t matter whether that the Metal was Government Property or Granny’s grave marker. Scrap Buyers have immunity and can’t be expected to keep records.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Actually, metal prices are up because environmentalists are blocking mining everywhere.

[amigatec]

We had a scrap yard that got into a lot of trouble buying old cars, it seemed the bank had liens of 3 or 4 cars they bought. What started out as junk wound up costing them several thousand dollars.

[Mikey_1962]

I remember when crack hit Detroit, all the aluminum siding as high as someone could reach was being ripped off every house on the lower East-side.

[No Truce With Kings]

“There is no national count of people killed in attempted copper thefts, but news accounts put the death toll at about two dozen over the past year, including an Ohio man who was electrocuted earlier this month and was found tangled in a utility line.”

Seems like a feature, not a bug, to me.

[TASMANIANRED]

Someone swiped the copper down spout off the churches gutter system.

[Stallone]

Scrap metal dealers are complicit.

Action needs to be taken immediately to prosecute them for accepting suspicious materials.

End it right now.

[capitalist229]

Higher commodity prices are due to inflation, ie too much liquidity due to loose central bank policies.

BUMP