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I hear that 16k power lines give the best copper and fetch the highest prices!
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|  swhx7Premium
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1 edit | It's Darwinian selection in action. Thinning the herd and all that.
Seriously, I sympathize with family of those who are killed, injured or imprisoned. And one can't rule out some cases of economic desperation. But when thieves suffer because they're stealing wires, in some cases wires that are carrying electric power, it's some combination of natural selection and karma. | |
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| | | | Re: great source or cheap copper pure greed is the motive they aren't feeding their family with it. | |
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Silver Spring, MD | Re: great source or cheap copper the hell you know? what, you steal copper too? lol. | |
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| | | | | ghoward79 wrote: "pure greed is the motive they aren't feeding their family with it."
They're feeding their noses with it. | |
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|  TrainBuffThe New Haven RailroadPremium
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kudos:4 | During the October surprise storm that hit the Buffalo, NY area. Thieves were stealing down lines and even transformers. The areas that the thefts occurred, it delayed the restoration of power. | |
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| JoelC707Premium
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kudos:2 | Just imagine their surprise if they managed to pull down a HV or EHV line (and lived) only to find out it is aluminum and not copper   . Same goes if they broke into a sub-station or power plant and stole the wrong reel of wire. Course they'd have to be near a sub-station to find lines like that as most of the distribution to homes and cities is copper. | |
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Mullica Hill, NJ | Re: great source or cheap copper said by JoelC707:Just imagine their surprise if they managed to pull down a HV or EHV line (and lived) only to find out it is aluminum and not copper . Same goes if they broke into a sub-station or power plant and stole the wrong reel of wire. Course they'd have to be near a sub-station to find lines like that as most of the distribution to homes and cities is copper. though id be pissed if i was in a raid in WoW and some copper thieves got fried in the substation and took me offline. yes i care more about my progression in a video game then the life of a crook.
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|  batterupI Can Not Tell A Lie.Premium
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Netcong, NJ | said by DontTryAtHome :
Here is a tip for anybody stealing copper...
I hear that 16k power lines give the best copper and fetch the highest prices!
Go for it!
They are aluminum. | |
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| | | | Re: great source or cheap copper thanks for taking all the fun out of my joke | |
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Cambridge, MA | said by DontTryAtHome :
Here is a tip for anybody stealing copper...
I hear that 16k power lines give the best copper and fetch the highest prices!
Go for it!
Also remember to check the line to see if its live. I recommend licking or peeing on the copper first. | |
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Lehigh Acres, FL | said by DontTryAtHome :
Here is a tip for anybody stealing copper...
I hear that 16k power lines give the best copper and fetch the highest prices!
Go for it! Actually nearly all HV lines are aluminum but copper thieves may be too stupid to know that. | |
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| | batterupI Can Not Tell A Lie.Premium
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| Re: great source or cheap copper said by zoreo:said by DontTryAtHome :
Here is a tip for anybody stealing copper...
I hear that 16k power lines give the best copper and fetch the highest prices!
Go for it! Actually nearly all HV lines are aluminum but copper thieves may be too stupid to know that. Thanks for taking all the fun out of his joke. | |
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Byron, GA | said by zoreo:said by DontTryAtHome :
Here is a tip for anybody stealing copper...
I hear that 16k power lines give the best copper and fetch the highest prices!
Go for it! Actually nearly all HV lines are aluminum but copper thieves may be too stupid to know that. The lines of high-voltage transmission systems are usually composed of wires of copper, aluminum, or copper-clad or aluminum-clad steel
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1 edit | Vacant homes being ransacked as well... ... I recently testified in a court case involving some guys caught under a neighbors vacant "For Sale" home pulling the wiring for resell.
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Recently, my father's entire grave marker was lifted, rather than the just vase. The memorial park had been having problems with the vases disappearing occasionally for years, but with the copper issue, it's not only gotten worse, the thieves are now taking whole plaques. I don't know if it was because it was believed to contain copper as well (my father's was bronze), or if they couldn't cut the chain on the vase. Does it matter? Still sick.
Here's a story about the theft of vases.
»www.mlive.com/news/annarbornews/···l&coll=2 | |
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| | | Re: Vacant homes being ransacked as well... copper pipes more often are stolen from vacant homes. i am a contractor & have recieved many a call from a homeowner needing new plumbing so tenants can move in. empty houses are hit hard. its so bad that while workers are rehabbing a house they have to spray paint "no copper, pvc" on the boarded windows just to keep the thieves from trying to get in to steal. its profitable for me, but a huge headache for property owners | |
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London, ON | Very surprising... ...that no one is suing power company/AT&T/VZ/etc....
Not that they should, but I've heard of more frivilous suits.
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| Burn Baby Burn! The more of these guys who fry themselves one power lines the better for the rest off and the gene pool as a whole. Too bad there was no video being made at the time the guy killed himself in Ohio. It probably would have made America's Funniest Video's. I certainly would have been laughing. Forgetting for a moment the fact that it is theft, they are also potentially endangering the lives of people who are dependent on electricity such as those who are on life support. Not to mention the rest of us with refrigerators or freezer who would lose a substantial investment in food due to spoilage in a power outage.
Let all these copper thieves die.
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Silver Spring, MD | Re: Burn Baby Burn! yea, cause we all reallllly want to get to the point where were fuckin our sister. lol. death is nothing to laugh about, regardless of situation. maybe, jusssst maybe, one day you'll die an leave family behind...you neeeeevvverrr know! lol. | |
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| Re: Burn Baby Burn! Loosen up, sometimes this stuff is just funny. We had a guy from around here die by rolling off a 4 story roof up in Columbia. They found him and a naked girl on the sidewalk with their clothes up on the roof. Terrible accident but it has to make you grin a little. Would it make you or anyone else feel better if he slipped in the tub and hit head? I would rather roll off the roof with the naked girl even if people thought it was funny. | |
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| said by FiL:death is nothing to laugh about, regardless of situation. maybe, jusssst maybe, one day you'll die an leave family behind...you neeeeevvverrr know! lol. In the case of these morons, they have zero respect for life (and death) themselves otherwise they would not be endangering the lives of people who depend on electricity (and forget about their own lives). I have zero regards for the lives of these people as I am sure they could care less about my life and the problems they might cause in doing what they do. If they leave a family behind, perhaps they should have thought about that before grabbing that copper line charged at 13.8KV.
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Tulsa, OK | Let Darwin sort them out. Hey, if they want to do something stupid and get killed for it let them go right ahead. This is one less idiot we need in the gene pool.
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| Re: Let Darwin sort them out. I work for the power company in Tucson, In the last couple weeks we have a had a few people try to break into one of the substations... I don't think 125,000V would feel too good.... Luckily for the last guys who tried one of the guards chased them off . | |
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| | | | | Re: Let Darwin sort them out. said by Convoluted :
Darwin is dead and so is his theory, replaced with creationism/"intelligent" design.
I see someone has been zapped trying to steal copper...and lived.... I pity you. | |
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Silver Spring, MD | All this Gene Pool talk got me thinking only Nazi scientists are posting today... | |
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kudos:2 | Is $3/pound really that much? I have no idea how many pounds of copper are on a pole, but it seems like it still wouldn't be worth the trouble. | |
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kudos:6 | Houston This is an epidemic here in Houston as well. Just recently there were some guys in a guy's house that was under construction. They were in there late at night ripping out all his copper pipes. He showed up and shot them.
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| Re: Houston said by AmeritecTech:This is an epidemic here in Houston as well. Just recently there were some guys in a guy's house that was under construction. They were in there late at night ripping out all his copper pipes. He showed up and shot them. Seems they collected lead instead of copper.
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kudos:6 | Re: Houston Yep. The fools threw a knife at him.
»www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/stor···,00.html
Of interest: he's in the state legislature and voted against the castle doctrine law for the state.
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| Re: Houston said by AmeritecTech:...Of interest: he's in the state legislature and voted against the castle doctrine law for the state. Reminds me of Carl Rowan:
"Rowan gained public notoriety on June 14, 1988, when he shot a teenage tresspasser, Neil Smith, who was taking a dip in Rowan's swimming pool in Washington, D.C.. Rowan used an unregistered .22 LR pistol. Critics charged hypocrisy, since Rowan was a strict gun control advocate. In a 1981 column, he advocated " a law that says anyone found in possession of a handgun except a legitimate officer of the law goes to jail -- period." In 1985, he called for "A complete and universal federal ban on the sale, manufacture, importation and possession of handguns (except for authorized police and military personnel)." [2] [3]
Immediately after the shooting, Rowan offered several conflicting accounts about where he got the handgun. He first said that he had purchased the gun himself in response to threats on his life (which he later claimed had been made by the Ku Klux Klan). He also initially claimed that the gun had been properly registered. However, when District of Columbia police disclosed that the gun had not been registered, Rowan changed his story, claiming that the gun belonged to his son, who "was an FBI agent and did not have to register it [because it was] properly registered federally." Police officials pointed out that under D.C. law, all guns must be registered locally; failure to do so was punishable by up to a year in prison and a $1,000 fine.
Rowan was tried but the jury was deadlocked, the judge declared a mistrial and he was never retried. In his autobiography, Rowan said he still favors gun control, but admits being vulnerable to a charge of hypocrisy [4]."
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Olathe, KS | Re: Houston Yes, well he was a member of Congress and everyone knows the laws they write don't apply to them. | |
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kudos:6 | Re: Houston said by MGP:Yes, well he was a member of Congress and everyone knows the laws they write don't apply to them. You might want to advise Ted Stevens and James Trafficant of that defense, heh.
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Houma, LA | Yay for cable and VOIP They can have my copper, their hasn't been a phone line in this house for 4 years and would not effect me one bit, unless they are stupid enough to rip down the cable for TV and things too. | |
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| Re: Yay for cable and VOIP said by Chris 313:They can have my copper, their hasn't been a phone line in this house for 4 years and would not effect me one bit, unless they are stupid enough to rip down the cable for TV and things too. Are your cable and telephone cords aluminum ? If not they can't really take it or you won't have service in your home.
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Charlotte, NC | Here They're stealing outdoor a/c compressors. Just rip the things off their base while they're still running even.
I'm thinking I need to find a roll of razor wire to wrap around my compressor. | |
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| | How do they draw this conclusion? »www.newsregister.com/news/story.···o=224456
Quote: "According to law enforcement officials, the price of copper has been soaring, making it an ever-more attractive target for thieves who are typically trying to feed a drug addiction. Iron and other metals also have been going up in price, though not by as much, they say, and members of the drug culture have taken notice."
How do they draw the conclusion that people who steal copper are (generalyl) trying to get drugs? That seems like a fairly blanket statement with no proof. This upsets me.
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kudos:1 | Let them steal it all then the phone companies will be forced to deploy 100% FTTH rofl | |
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| | | Re: stop using copper I have seen an example of theft of fiber optic cable in a new FTTP neighborhood. Poor idiots probably thought it was copper. What a surprise when they did not find much copper when they burned the sheath of that stolen cable. It plainly stated optical cable on the outside, but I suppose reading is not a requirement to be a thief.
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Grand Rapids, MI | No 911 What if these bums steals some phone line and that night someone has a heart attack and needs to call 911. They pickup the phone to find no ring tone and the person dies.
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| | bon voyage, douchebag Good F'in riddance.. It warms my heart to see a crackhead get turned into a charcoal briquette. They are a stain on the earth anyway. | |
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Dayton, OH
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| copper thefts This really does keep the gene pool clear of debris. We have had a few local individuals, one pair of brothers, get fried for stealing copper wire,well the attempt to steal it,it was not a overall success as you can imagine. At least those two guys didn't pass on those genes to anyone else, at least in the paper they did not allude to them leaving any child or wives behind.
What really prompts them to cut in 10K volt power lines, this is truly Darwin's theory at work.
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| | | Re: copper thefts said by GypsyRN:This really does keep the gene pool clear of debris. We have had a few local individuals, one pair of brothers, get fried for stealing copper wire,well the attempt to steal it,it was not a overall success as you can imagine. At least those two guys didn't pass on those genes to anyone else, at least in the paper they did not allude to them leaving any child or wives behind. What really prompts them to cut in 10K volt power lines, this is truly Darwin's theory at work. Gypsy...where / when was that? I must have been on the road and missed the Channel 7 dramacast | |
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Dayton, OH
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1 edit | Re: copper thefts It's happened more than once. Most recently there was an incident in Middletown Butler Co. Maybe a few months ago a guy was trying to steal wiring from the Sinclair College area and got toasted, literally. Problem is, it didn't kill him ... for almost a week.
This is from the Dayton Daily News, which you have to register at to read:
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hiatus | Got my copper... :) My company just ripped out a small load of copper from an old network to make way for a new network at one of our clients. The guy who was working with me asked me where he should put it in the dumpster. I promptly correctly the youngster and informed him that the copper we had collected that day was probably worth about $30. We still have more to remove. 
As usual, its going to the back of my car, to the scrap yard and I'm going to buy a case of some good beer with the money... Imported European beer.
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2 edits | "Cocaine is a hell of a drug" Nuff said. | |
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San Francisco, CA | Re: "Cocaine is a hell of a drug" lol in Vancouver Canada they don't usually steal power lines but they do steal compressor coils. lol | |
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