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  • EV charging cables cut off and stolen from chargers in Oakland

    06/18/2023 10:03:43 AM PDT · by artichokegrower · 110 replies
    KTVU ^ | June 16, 2023 | Brooks Jarosz
    OAKLAND, Calif. - Vandals sliced through thick cables at an Oakland electric vehicle charging station, leaving drivers powerless. Nearly a dozen charging cables are missing from the EVgo charging station at 409 Washington Street near Jack London Square. The chargers have been out of commission for at least a week.
  • Scrap Metal Price Down 47% since April

    07/25/2022 1:29:30 PM PDT · by Rebelbase · 29 replies
    Scrapyard ^ | 7/25/22 | Rebelbase
    No Link.Back in April a 1,000 pound load of metal at the scrap yard paid 8.5 cents per pound which was $85 for the half ton load I took there.Today I had a dump load with some metal and decided to stop by the scrap yard and get $8 or $9 instead of just dumping it. It was right at 100 lbs. and payed out $4.50.That is 47% less than what it was a little over 3 months ago.Is that big a price drop normal in the scrap market; maybe it is a seasonal thing? Or a sign of Brandon's...
  • 72 gravesites vandalized at Julia Page Cemetery

    05/15/2016 7:27:49 PM PDT · by SandRat · 17 replies
    DOUGLAS DISPATCH ^ | AALIYAH MONTOYA
    More than 70 gravesite headstones have been vandalized and stripped of their bronze/copper name plates at the Julia Page Cemetery, located at the 1300 block of Third Street. The incident is under investigation by the Douglas Police Department and is believed to have been occurring over the past few months, although it is just now being reported, according to DPD Sgt. Jose Duarte. As of Friday, investigators have only been able to identify fewer than 10 victims, including the loved one of Douglas resident Tom Felix.
  • Late Brooklyn Artist’s Mystery Solved

    04/16/2014 2:38:48 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 16 replies
    New York Daily News ^ | Tuesday, April 15, 2014 | Doyle Murphy
    Marty Resnick installed his sculpture on the grounds of Kingsborough Community College before moving in 1975 to live off the land in Southeast Ohio. The origins of the scrap metal artwork puzzled faculty members for decades.Friends of an enigmatic artist have solved a Manhattan Beach whodunit that has stumped locals for four decades. A rusting sculpture on the campus of Kingsborough Community College has puzzled faculty members who long ago had lost the identity of its creator — if they had it to begin with. “When they were doing the inventory they had no record of the sculpture,” Kingsborough Art...
  • $33 million Faberge Egg discovered by scrap metal dealer

    03/20/2014 8:01:34 AM PDT · by JoeProBono · 60 replies
    upi ^ | March. 19, 2014
    LONDON, A U.S. scrap metal dealer intending to melt down an ornament for its gold was shocked to discover it was a $33 million Faberge egg, a British expert said. Kieran McCarthy of London jeweler Wartski said the scrap metal dealer, who wished to remain anonymous, bought the gold egg for $13,302 from an antiques dealer about a decade ago and had planned to melt it down and sell the metal, but the project was put on hold when he was unable to find a buyer, the Telegraph reported Wednesday. McCarthy said the egg stayed in the man's home until...
  • Obama On Listening To Bob Dylan In College: My World Opened Up

    05/29/2012 10:38:23 PM PDT · by Steelfish · 25 replies
    Weekly Standard ^ | May 29, 2012 | DANIEL HALPER
    Obama On Listening To Bob Dylan In College: My World Opened Up MAY 29, 2012 • BY DANIEL HALPER President Barack Obama awarded Presidential Medals of Freedom today at the White House to Bob Dylan John Glenn, John Paul Stevens, Madeleine Albright, Shimon Peres, Jan Karski, John Doar, William Foege, Dolores Huerta, Juliette Gordon Low, Pat Summitt, and Gordon Hirabayashi. The award is the highest honor a president can give to a civilian. When delivering his brief remarks about each honoree, President Obama thanked musician Bob Dylan for opening up his "world." "I remember in college listening to Bob Dylan...
  • KPFT, Pacifica affiliate in Houston, is off the air (due to "vandalism", actually copper theives)

    06/28/2010 1:06:52 PM PDT · by a fool in paradise · 26 replies
    Houston Chronicle ^ | June 28, 2010 | Jeff Bair
    ...note on their website tells the story: The power line to the KPFT transmitter tower was cut during the night, most likely by copper bandits. Harris County sheriffs are conducting an investigation at this time. The building housing our transmitter was damaged and must be repaired before the electrical service can be restored. It is possible we may be off-line for the remainder of the day, maybe longer. We are, however, still on in Galveston (yay 89.5!) and available thru our stream at www.kpt.org...
  • Surrogate mother for Osama Bin Laden's IVF grandchild

    06/10/2010 11:49:42 PM PDT · by Stoat · 5 replies · 409+ views
    The Sun (U.K.) ^ | June 11, 2010 | GARY O’SHEA
    EXCLUSIVE Surrogate mother for Osama Bin Laden's grandchild  By GARY O’SHEA Published: Today THIS is the British mum set to give birth to Osama Bin Laden's grandchild. Trips to Dubai ... Louise is due for pregnancy test ALISTAIR HEAP Louise Pollard, 24, is acting as a surrogate mother for the al-Qaeda warlord's son Omar Bin Laden, The Sun can reveal. She is undergoing fertility treatment, thought to be IVF, in an attempt to conceive using Omar's sperm and eggs from his British wife Jane Felix Browne. Grandad ... Osama Bin Laden    The Qatar-based pair - who are desperate to have...
  • Metal thieves suspected of toppling cell tower [near Tullahoma, TN]

    07/08/2008 3:01:55 PM PDT · by OrangeDaisy · 29 replies · 962+ views
    The Tullahoma News and Guardian ^ | 7/8/2008 | BRIAN JUSTICE
    Although a new state law is making it harder to sell illegally obtained scrap metal, a cell phone tower at Tracy City that was pulled down apparently to get copper indicates how far thieves will go to get what recently has become a "precious" material. The incident occurred late Friday or early Saturday when guy wires were cut to get a DTC Wireless tower to fall in an apparent effort to get copper wiring, according to Ricky Gibbs, DTC cellular and marketing manager. The tower is owned by Wireless Properties and is leased by DTC Wireless. Gibbs summed up his...
  • Metal thieves converge on Patterson farms

    01/09/2008 7:35:21 PM PST · by DeaconBenjamin · 24 replies · 683+ views
    California Farm Bureau Federation ^ | January 9, 2008 | By Christine Souza
    Patterson grower Dave Santos of Lucich/Santos Farms switched over to plastic irrigation ­fittings after thieves stole the brass ones that were likely sold to a scrap yard for cash. Patterson farmer Mike Lara stands at the scene of the crime--at his pump station along the Delta Mendota Canal where thieves rammed the junction box for his irrigation pump, ripped off the power meter and stripped the copper wiring, leaving live electrical wires exposed and several thousand dollars worth of damages. It was another case of metal theft on agricultural lands, a crime spree of growing proportions that spares no county...
  • Scrap-Metal Salvage Puts Iraqis to Work

    12/28/2007 5:59:31 PM PST · by SandRat · 4 replies · 266+ views
    American Forces Press Service ^ | Maj. Charles Rote, USA
    BAGHDAD, Dec. 28, 2007 – Fourteen Iraqis began working last week in the Defense Reutilization Material Office yard to reduce damaged and unusable vehicles into scrap metal. The metal will be sold to an outside business and eventually moved to an Iraqi foundry. An Iraqi worker demilitarizes an old Iraqi army vehicle as part of a combined effort by the 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment’s Regimental Support Squadron, the Iraqi Business and Industrial Zone and the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service to put Iraqis to work demilitarizing old armed vehicles. Photo by Capt. Derek Hoffman, USA  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available....
  • SCRAP BANDITS(Scrap thieves in LA.)

    10/01/2007 4:18:52 PM PDT · by BBell · 28 replies · 123+ views
    Times Picayune ^ | October 01, 2007 | Brendan McCarthy
    Police struggle to stop post-Katrina looters who are cashing in on rising copper prices at the expense of rebuilders On a hot weekday morning, as the city starts to wake, the line at a bustling downtown scrap metal yard stretches six people deep. Machines whir in the background, dust clogs the air, and a forklift loaded with dented building downspouts darts about. Squares of squished metal line the barn-type building like bales of hay. The men in line are a motley mix of anxious opportunists. Some in construction boots and tool belts come to the recycling center in sleek pickup...
  • Metal Thefts Soar With Prices for Scrap

    01/19/2006 11:36:31 AM PST · by JZelle · 17 replies · 789+ views
    The Washington Times ^ | 1-19-06 | JAMES HANNAH
    SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) -- Real estate broker Cyle Young got a shock when he drove by a house he bought two days earlier. The home had been stripped of aluminum siding from the ground to as high as a person could reach. "A couple days later, they broke back in and stole all the copper in it," said Young, who has since renovated the house and has it up for sale. "I can't tell you how many houses we've bought with no downspouts - gutters gone." High market prices for copper and aluminum are enticing thieves to steal metal to...
  • Explosives: A Shocking New Russian Wrinkle

    10/28/2004 6:34:02 AM PDT · by bobsunshine · 89 replies · 4,201+ views
    INDC Journal ^ | 10/27/2004 | INDC Journal
    October 27, 2004 Explosives: A Shocking New Russian Wrinkle (Flashback - That Russian Convoy) Where are the IAEA's missing explosives, along with other elements of Saddam's WMD program? It seems that the Russians might know: Russian special forces troops moved many of Saddam Hussein's weapons and related goods out of Iraq and into Syria in the weeks before the March 2003 U.S. military operation, The Washington Times has learned. John A. Shaw, the deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, said in an interview that he believes the Russian troops, working with Iraqi intelligence, "almost certainly" removed the high-explosive...
  • UN inspectors: Saddam shipped out WMD before war and after

    06/11/2004 1:17:07 PM PDT · by freebilly · 207 replies · 9,577+ views
    The United Nations has determined that Saddam Hussein shipped weapons of mass destruction components as well as medium-range ballistic missiles before, during and after the U.S.-led war against Iraq in 2003. The UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission briefed the Security Council on new findings that could help trace the whereabouts of Saddam's missile and WMD program. The briefing contained satellite photographs that demonstrated the speed with which Saddam dismantled his missile and WMD sites before and during the war. Council members were shown photographs of a ballistic missile site outside Baghdad in May 2003, and then saw a satellite...
  • Engines Used in Missiles Found in Jordan ( Scrap yard )

    06/09/2004 7:16:06 PM PDT · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 20 replies · 1,285+ views
    The Las Vegas Sun ^ | June 09, 2004 at 19:06:49 PDT | EDITH M. LEDERER
    UNITED NATIONS (AP) - U.N. weapons experts have found 20 engines used in banned Iraqi missiles in a Jordan scrapyard along with other equipment that could be used to make weapons of mass destruction, an official said Wednesday. The discoveries were revealed to the U.N. Security Council by acting chief U.N. inspector Demetrius Perricos during in a closed-door briefing. The text was obtained by The Associated Press. The U.N. team was following up on an earlier discovery of a similar Al Samoud 2 engine in a scrapyard in the Dutch port of Rotterdam. Perricos said inspectors also want to check...
  • China's Need for Metal Keeps U.S. Scrap Dealers Scrounging

    03/13/2004 3:10:02 AM PST · by sarcasm · 18 replies · 920+ views
    The New York Times ^ | March 13, 2004 | ANDREW POLLACK and KEITH BRADSHER
    OS ANGELES, March 12 — At a time when toys, televisions and other products made in China are flooding into the United States, helping push the trade deficit to record levels, there is at least one American product for which China has a nearly insatiable demand — industrial junk. Sales of scrap metal to China have surged, with effects that are ricocheting across the American economy. Prices are soaring not just for scrap, but for metals in general. After years of surpluses that forced many steel makers into bankruptcy, supplies are so tight that contractors told a Congressional hearing in...