The latest p****y trend...
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TeaNoSugar said:
Metal theft doesn't always pay though. This is a true story, which happened about 2 years ago:
One of my brothers is an electrician. He and his manager were called out by the police to a substation to isolate the power supply after a break-in. When they arrived the police told them that two gypo's had broken in, and they were both now dead, but the police wouldn't touch anythin until everything had been isolated by qualified electrical engineers.
Turned out the thieving tw@ts had got into the building, successfully switched off the power, lifted a load of covers to access the biggest copper cable in the place which was down in a trench, and got busy chopping the cable out with an axe. Unfortunately for them they then hacked through a cable connected to the fire suppressant system, which had set the system off and quickly filled the building with inert gas (halon I think) to displace the oxygen. The result, two
s paid the ultimate price for nicking copper. Shame.
One of my brothers is an electrician. He and his manager were called out by the police to a substation to isolate the power supply after a break-in. When they arrived the police told them that two gypo's had broken in, and they were both now dead, but the police wouldn't touch anythin until everything had been isolated by qualified electrical engineers.
Turned out the thieving tw@ts had got into the building, successfully switched off the power, lifted a load of covers to access the biggest copper cable in the place which was down in a trench, and got busy chopping the cable out with an axe. Unfortunately for them they then hacked through a cable connected to the fire suppressant system, which had set the system off and quickly filled the building with inert gas (halon I think) to displace the oxygen. The result, two
s paid the ultimate price for nicking copper. Shame.
TeaNoSugar said:
Metal theft doesn't always pay though. This is a true story, which happened about 2 years ago:
One of my brothers is an electrician. He and his manager were called out by the police to a substation to isolate the power supply after a break-in. When they arrived the police told them that two gypo's had broken in, and they were both now dead, but the police wouldn't touch anythin until everything had been isolated by qualified electrical engineers.
Turned out the thieving tw@ts had got into the building, successfully switched off the power, lifted a load of covers to access the biggest copper cable in the place which was down in a trench, and got busy chopping the cable out with an axe. Unfortunately for them they then hacked through a cable connected to the fire suppressant system, which had set the system off and quickly filled the building with inert gas (halon I think) to displace the oxygen. The result, twos paid the ultimate price for nicking copper. Shame.
Something like This happens at least annually on the railways. Unfortunately it's easy money if you're smart enough not to kill yourself. Clearly some aren't. One of my brothers is an electrician. He and his manager were called out by the police to a substation to isolate the power supply after a break-in. When they arrived the police told them that two gypo's had broken in, and they were both now dead, but the police wouldn't touch anythin until everything had been isolated by qualified electrical engineers.
Turned out the thieving tw@ts had got into the building, successfully switched off the power, lifted a load of covers to access the biggest copper cable in the place which was down in a trench, and got busy chopping the cable out with an axe. Unfortunately for them they then hacked through a cable connected to the fire suppressant system, which had set the system off and quickly filled the building with inert gas (halon I think) to displace the oxygen. The result, two
s paid the ultimate price for nicking copper. Shame.MarkRSi said:
How??? 
err you sell it for scrap ?I get £65 for an OE cat local, up to £80 if i travel but that depends on what cars i've broken if i have a few cats i go further afield and get more, batterys are starting to dissapear lately but as they are like £8 a pop scap at the mo it's easy to see why, makes us leagal scrapers look bad, yes there are some of us about who mechanic and run frag
AUDIHenry said:
Ponk said:
Something like This happens at least annually on the railways. Unfortunately it's easy money if you're smart enough not to kill yourself. Clearly some aren't.
Stealing rails or the copper thereabouts?Dodgy scrap dealers are the problem. People will always steal if they know they can sell it on easily.
Ponk said:
AUDIHenry said:
Ponk said:
Something like This happens at least annually on the railways. Unfortunately it's easy money if you're smart enough not to kill yourself. Clearly some aren't.
Stealing rails or the copper thereabouts?Dodgy scrap dealers are the problem. People will always steal if they know they can sell it on easily.
Someone somewhere down the line knows they are paying for stolen gear, surely?
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