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Christina Websell wrote:
We did have a bit of problem a while ago, someone got a bicycle stolen from their yard and another got their hub caps stolen from their car outside on the street. I hate to admit this (stereotyping) but I always suspected the scrap dealers that were up here twice a week with their vans. Since they now have to be licensed to do this and cannot take stuff to a scrapyard to get a cash payment, they don't come any more and nothing metal has gone missing. I lost my wrought iron side gate when I was in hospital. The law was brought in after so many buildings (churches, especially) were being stripped of the lead on their roof. Now, the scrapyards can only pay you by cheque, which has had a brilliant effect on opportunistic metal thieves here as has the licensing law. Now, if they steal it, they can't get rid of it as the scrapyards get regular visits from the enforcement agency and if they can't account for where it came from with paperwork, they will get a massive fine. Seems to be working quite well ;-) There's a similar problem over here with copper theft. People steal plumbing from buildings (pipes newer than a certain time are made of copper). I wish they'd try something like that here. -- Joyce The sun rose slowly, like a fiery furball coughed up uneasily onto a sky-blue carpet by a giant unseen cat. -- Michael McGarel |
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Christina Websell wrote:
I'm not suggesting USA people leave their doors open, what with the raccoons, huge insects, possums, cougars, bears, and alligators. Heh, and don't forget humans. At least the ones who have nothing good on their minds. There are plenty of insects on this continent, but I don't think of them as huge. That sounds more like Australia. At least we don't get all of these animals together in one place! It's been safe here to do this for many years as we don't get any of them. The worst I got, wildlife-wise, was when a blackbird kept coming into the house to steal dog food to feed his large babies and one of my whippets chased him on to a shelf, where he knocked some precious ornaments over, sentimental value, and smashed them to bits. I'll bet you never thought you'd have to plan for a wildlife accident when you put those ornaments on the shelf! -- Joyce The sun rose slowly, like a fiery furball coughed up uneasily onto a sky-blue carpet by a giant unseen cat. -- Michael McGarel |
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On 2014-01-09 10:06 PM, Bastette wrote:
Christina Websell wrote: We did have a bit of problem a while ago, someone got a bicycle stolen from their yard and another got their hub caps stolen from their car outside on the street. I hate to admit this (stereotyping) but I always suspected the scrap dealers that were up here twice a week with their vans. Since they now have to be licensed to do this and cannot take stuff to a scrapyard to get a cash payment, they don't come any more and nothing metal has gone missing. I lost my wrought iron side gate when I was in hospital. The law was brought in after so many buildings (churches, especially) were being stripped of the lead on their roof. Now, the scrapyards can only pay you by cheque, which has had a brilliant effect on opportunistic metal thieves here as has the licensing law. Now, if they steal it, they can't get rid of it as the scrapyards get regular visits from the enforcement agency and if they can't account for where it came from with paperwork, they will get a massive fine. Seems to be working quite well ;-) There's a similar problem over here with copper theft. People steal plumbing from buildings (pipes newer than a certain time are made of copper). I wish they'd try something like that here. Employees at a local scrapyard recently started wondering if a bell they had purchased might not have been acquired legally, so they called the police. Sure enough, it had been stolen from a church. Modern plumbing all seems to be plastic, but when copper prices go up, the more stupid of the local thieves steal wiring from phone and power installations. Sooner or later one of them will be electrocuted. There is a small development where I used to live in which the old buildings were torn down and the new ones built slowly, over a period of just over 3 years. For long periods of time, the site was left unattended and unsecured. I saw nothing myself, but I heard that building supplies vanished from the site at an astonishing rate. -- Cheryl |
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"Bastette" wrote in message ... Christina Websell wrote: We did have a bit of problem a while ago, someone got a bicycle stolen from their yard and another got their hub caps stolen from their car outside on the street. I hate to admit this (stereotyping) but I always suspected the scrap dealers that were up here twice a week with their vans. Since they now have to be licensed to do this and cannot take stuff to a scrapyard to get a cash payment, they don't come any more and nothing metal has gone missing. I lost my wrought iron side gate when I was in hospital. The law was brought in after so many buildings (churches, especially) were being stripped of the lead on their roof. Now, the scrapyards can only pay you by cheque, which has had a brilliant effect on opportunistic metal thieves here as has the licensing law. Now, if they steal it, they can't get rid of it as the scrapyards get regular visits from the enforcement agency and if they can't account for where it came from with paperwork, they will get a massive fine. Seems to be working quite well ;-) There's a similar problem over here with copper theft. People steal plumbing from buildings (pipes newer than a certain time are made of copper). I wish they'd try something like that here. Maybe you should suggest it to the powers that be ;-) It's been a spectacular success here although it only came into force quite recently https://www.gov.uk/government/news/s...ome-into-force Tweed |
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On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 08:30:35 -0330, Cheryl wrote:
Employees at a local scrapyard recently started wondering if a bell they had purchased might not have been acquired legally, so they called the police. Sure enough, it had been stolen from a church. In the mid-1980s, I worked as a security guard. Some of my time was spent guarding a scrapyard. At the time, copper prices had not yet risen high enough to encourage a lot of theft, but aluminum was sufficiently valuable that they had problems with people stealing drink cans and other aluminum scrap from the scrapyard, then selling it back to the scrapyard the next day. So, they invested in a smelter that could reduce the scrap to ingots weighing about 1000 pounds each. Not only were these ingots a lot harder to steal, but they also had the scrapyard's initials molded into them. Incidentally, when an ingot was poured into the mold, it took about three days for it to cool down to ambient temperature, despite aluminum being a fairly good heat-conductor. |
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