Copper being stolen in Los Angelas

[the watcher]

The assimilation continues.

 

[toobfreak]

The assimilation continues.

Interesting. Some of this work is very difficult and dangerous and probably benefits from a little insider knowledge of just what is where and how to get at it.

 

[the watcher]

Just throw it in the infrastructure bill, cost of doing bidness. I guess catalytic converters are phasing out, maybe batteries will be next.

 

[JGalt]

Copper is $5.01 per pound today.

 

[toobfreak]

Copper is $5.01 per pound today.

I'm not exactly sure when the big switch to aluminum was or where all the fat old copper still is, but anywhere you can find lines near substations, etc., anywhere there is both high voltage and a lot of current, where cables might be as thick as a couple inches solid twisted copper, there could be some pretty big bucks to make.

Then all you have to do is touch the wrong thing and you are dead. Zzzzt.

 

[Correll]

We used to be civilized.

 

[the watcher]

There is no 'we' now, only scattered and aimless takers.

 

[Cellblock2429]

The assimilation continues.

/-----/ And Newscum wants to bring this to all of America.

 

[the watcher]

Someone is causing anarchy and violence in America, and that Someone will use the results of that to consolidate power.

 

[Fugazi]

This happens everywhere, has for over a decade where I live, ever since the price of copper skyrocketed. Every once in a while I hear a local news story of someone getting electrocuted and dying.

 

[1srelluc]

I doubt if there is any copper left in WV.....The Tweekers and Pillbillys got it all.

PSA.....There's at least five pounds of copper in those speeding cameras.

 

[Cellblock2429]

This happens everywhere, has for over a decade where I live, ever since the price of copper skyrocketed. Every once in a while I hear a local news story of someone getting electrocuted and dying.

/----/ Shocking, I tell you. Simply shocking.

 

[Blaster]

We used to be civilized.

Seems like it was a long time ago.

 

[Delldude]

Seems like it was a long time ago.

In a galaxy far far away.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

We used to be civilized.

If They Won't Serve Us, They Won't Survive Us

Only because we'd kill the uncivilized on sight.

 

[Invisibleflash]

We used to be civilized.

 

[marvin martian]

The assimilation continues.

This happens in most big blue cities, and some of the smaller ones.

When I lived in California, I put an offer on a house in a small foothill town outside Sacramento. Offer was accepted, and when we came back a few days later, tweakers had broken in and stripped all the copper wiring out of the house and the yard, right up to the service panel.

We backed out of the deal, but the agent called the "police". Know what they said? "Get a dog and some cameras". LOL!

SO glad I left that shithole behind years ago.

 

[hjmick]

Copper being stolen in Los Angelas...

Still? They were doing that in Los Angeles back in the late '90s early '00s...

 

[scruffy]

Just wait till they figure out how much brass is in the subways.

 

[marvin martian]

Still? They were doing that in Los Angeles back in the late '90s early '00s...

Yup, and the people who run the city are still letting it happen.