FirstEnergy offering $5,000 reward after overhead wire stolen in Cleveland area

Fox 8 News ^ | 11/14/2016 | Jen Steer

[jimtorr]

...someone removed the catalytic converters from all the vehicles.

This happened at a building I worked at ten years ago. The catalytic converter was cut off a jacked-up pickup truck on the outer edge of the parking lot. In broad daylight. I stood beside the truck, and I could see NSA headquarters at Fort Meade, MD, 250 yards away.

The deputy sheriff who responded said there was a theft ring operating in the area.

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What’s needed is a serious crackdown on the recyclers who receive stolen electrical wire. Shouldn’t it raise questions when some bozos show up looking to sell miles of heavy-duty electrical cable?

[Organic Panic]

“Why yes Mr. Sanford. All the 17 year olds in my hood have overhead transmission line just laying around.”

There were some drugged up morons who tried to sell a bronze statue to the local scrap dealer. They stole it from a popular rest stop in Oregon. “Oh, I just happened to have an 8 foot tall statue of Sakagawea in the garage and was doing some spring cleaning.”