ke4pym
join:2004-07-24
Charlotte, NC | This has
been going on for a long time. We're always reporting on our newscasts about copper being stolen.
The latest trend is to steal catalytic converters from cars. |
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Derfel
join:2004-06-06
Winnipeg, MB | Incroyable!
Uh... that's quite a bit of copper. Any idea what the market value of that would be? |
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CigaR
Premium
join:2004-08-24 | While the price of copper is on the rise, the price of fibre optics continues to drop in Europe...
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Maurício |
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pnh102
Reptiles Are Cuddly And Pretty
Premium
join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD
 ·Comcast
| reply to Derfel
said by Derfel  :Uh... that's quite a bit of copper. Any idea what the market value of that would be? Probably nothing... how the heck is anyone going to sell that stuff?
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SandShark
So it goes
Premium,MVM
join:2000-05-23
Santa Fe, TX
clubs:
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| And Then What?
So, you rip off a ton of copper cable, then what? I don't know about France, but where I live if you walk in a salvage yard with a ton of copper telephone cable, a lot of questions are going to be asked.
We've had cases of working air conditioning units being disassembled to remove the copper/aluminum condenser coils. One time, someone climbed on the roof of a local church and stole a buttload of 2-1/8" hard copper refrigerant tubing along with the copper gutters. The thieves were later apprehended by police. |
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backness
join:2005-07-08
K2P OW2
| reply to pnh102
Re: Incroyable!
said by pnh102 :said by Derfel :Uh... that's quite a bit of copper. Any idea what the market value of that would be? Probably nothing... how the heck is anyone going to sell that stuff? salvage yard... they pay by the pound or kilo in europe |
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Michieru2
zzz zzz zzz
Premium
join:2005-01-28
Miami, FL | reply to pnh102
He probably does not even need to sell it and sells it at some flee market and slap an RCA logo on it. All you need is the end connectors and you got yourself a new cable. |
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Kearnstd
Elf Wizard
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join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ | reply to Derfel
notice that nobody steals from the power company, too bad the telco cant bump up the voltage.
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pnh102
Reptiles Are Cuddly And Pretty
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join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD
·Comcast
| said by Kearnstd :notice that nobody steals from the power company, too bad the telco cant bump up the voltage. HAHAHAHA I would pay good money to see someone try to steal copper from the power company 
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pnh102
Reptiles Are Cuddly And Pretty
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join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD
·Comcast
| reply to Michieru2
said by Michieru2 :He probably does not even need to sell it and sells it at some flee market and slap an RCA logo on it. All you need is the end connectors and you got yourself a new cable. True, true... but stealing connectors also increases the risk of getting caught.
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Only SHATNER is Kirk. |
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Michieru2
zzz zzz zzz
Premium
join:2005-01-28
Miami, FL
| How much a bag of 100 connectors would cost you if you bought them from some large supplier? Probably a mere 4euros and you sell each cable at 8euros.
So if you where able to make 50 cables that would be 200euros and subtract 4 euros for the next bag you need to pay and you got yourself 196euros. |
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Kibbles
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join:1999-07-31
Mission Viejo, CA
| reply to Derfel
I think about $3.70 a pound...here in So CA people are recycling Copper Heat Exchangers from old Pool Heaters..there is usually about 20-40 pounds of Copper from each Heater.
I used to drop the old heaters off at our Wholesaler and someone would pick them up to be Recycled....now it is the Wholesaler that Recycles them  |
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Hall
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join:2000-04-28
Dayton, OH
·EarthLink
·AT&T Midwest
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1 edit | reply to Kearnstd
said by Kearnstd :notice that nobody steals from the power company... This is about criminals, right ? And most criminals are stupid, right ? I'm looking for the article, but it did happen here in Dayton. Needless to say, after a couple of weeks or a month of certainly extreme pain in the hospital, this guy won't be stealing *anything* anymore...
Here's a very brief, and old, story about this incident: Man Shocked By Wire In Dayton In Intensive Care
The man shocked while allegedly trying to steal copper Thursday afternoon is in Intensive Care after getting burned.
Police said 48-year-old Grover Scott took an ax and chopped through a powerline carrying more than 13,000 volts of power.
The electricity burned Scott over 40 percent of his body on Edwin C. Moses Boulevard.
The incident knocked out power to part of the city including Sinclair Community College. »www.whiotv.com/news/9314409/detail.html |
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moby866
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join:2000-10-07
Above you
 ·surpasshosting
·RoadRunner Cable
 ·Vonage
·CableOne
| We have the same thing in KC
They are stealing from the power substations here in the KC area. Also AC units, construction sites are gutted of plumbing and electrical materials, abandoned houses are stripped, anything that has copper or any other metal that is valuable on the market. |
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phaqu
join:2005-05-26
Marietta, GA | This isnt something new
Stuff like that has been going on for years. |
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Doctor Four
My other vehicle is a TARDIS
Premium
join:2000-09-05
Dallas, TX | reply to Hall
Re: Incroyable!
It happened in Dallas a few weeks ago. A man was fatally
electrocuted after he tried to steal copper from a live
power line.
Someone said he'd looked like he had been through a
bug zapper. |
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Kearnstd
Elf Wizard
Premium
join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ | reply to Derfel
guess i was wrong, people are dumb enough to challenge 13kv.
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Anonymous
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join:2004-06-01
IA
·Mediacom
| reply to Kearnstd
said by Kearnstd :notice that nobody steals from the power company, too bad the telco cant bump up the voltage. Wrong  |
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dave
Premium,MVM
join:2000-05-04
not in ohio | reply to Hall
'Carrying X volts of power'. Sigh. Science education isn't what it used to be. |
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CO_Chris
Premium
join:2001-08-28
Broomfield, CO | reply to SandShark
Re: And Then What?
This did happen in Houston? |
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