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SCRAP BANDITS(Scrap thieves in LA.)
Times Picayune ^ | October 01, 2007 | Brendan McCarthy

Posted on 10/01/2007 4:18:52 PM PDT by BBell

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To: BBell

As an electrical contractor that has been ripped off by copper thieves..I enjoy it when the thieves cut into HOT wiring!
Everything they have is left there!


21 posted on 10/01/2007 6:19:58 PM PDT by Yorktownpatriot (Greetings from Yorktown..the cradle of our Republic! Let's keep it!)
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To: Sender

They used to hang horse thieves.


22 posted on 10/01/2007 6:24:51 PM PDT by BBell
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To: mrmargaritaville

One of my relatives lives right near Youngstown. One of the jobs he does is close up foreclosures in Youngstown. He told me that some of the houses have been stripped clean of their copper and siding.


23 posted on 10/01/2007 6:28:24 PM PDT by BBell
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To: fishergirl
We had a lot of derelicts come here from all over after the hurricane looking for opportunity. I hate to admit it but the Hispanics were a welcome sight after dealing with our own home grown derelicts.
24 posted on 10/01/2007 6:32:05 PM PDT by BBell
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They used to hang horse thieves.

Yep. Hung 'em with copper wires.

25 posted on 10/01/2007 7:28:47 PM PDT by Sender (Dar al-harb, USA)
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I hate to admit it but the Hispanics were a welcome sight after dealing with our own home grown derelicts.
Get back to us on that when their jobs dry up...The loss of construction jobs and the increase in crime around the country isn't a coincidence.
26 posted on 10/01/2007 10:38:07 PM PDT by lewislynn (What does the global warming movement and the Fairtax movement have in common? Disinformation)
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To: cquiggy

“Yet the losers in Louisiana steal everything that is given to them by our tax dollars.”

Read the other posts. This is not a development unique to Louisiana or New Orleans. BTW, it may interest you to know that we pay taxes down here too.


27 posted on 10/02/2007 4:54:30 AM PDT by Mila
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Around where I live the jobs have been drying up for a while now. Most of them left. The local grocery stores have cut back on the size of their Hispanic section, which didn’t exist before Katrina. Louisiana is not exactly a haven for illegals. We are next to Texas but we have a very low population of illegals. The pay scale here is low and we have NO sanctuary citys, not even NOLA. The law enforcement here (bubba and his buddies) don’t take kindly to law breaking illegals. Jefferson Parish, which borders NOLA and was the domain of the late great Harry Lee, is particularly hard on them. They even cracked down hard on their Taco trucks.
28 posted on 10/02/2007 6:29:00 PM PDT by BBell
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To: cquiggy
A giant Dogfish park maybe.


29 posted on 10/02/2007 6:36:06 PM PDT by BBell
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