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Be a real shame if he should get out of prison only to trip and fall head first down an old abandoned well....
wood thief caught in the act
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allstihl
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funny that you should mention that. my house was built in the 1830s. i have 3 old wells
KenJax Tree
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The DWI will get dropped if he wasn't actually driving, he was stealing wood.
allstihl
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not in ny
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Not even close. Metal scrappers are.
They take things of significant value, and destroy them by trading them in for scrap value. They usually tear things up so bad while on site, the cost of the repair far exceeds the value of the new equipment replacement value.
BTW: allstihl, you have a pretty good neighbor.
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zogger
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Not even close. Metal scrappers are.
They take things of significant value, and destroy them by trading them in for scrap value. They usually tear things up so bad while on site, the cost of the repair far exceeds the value of the new equipment replacement value.
BTW: allstihl, you have a pretty good neighbor.
That's the truth! The scrappers are completely outta control! Boss spent serious coinage on getting a shavings mill building built, he had the shavings mill, everything, including whopper three phase motors and the most important part, the factory knife sharpener. Luckily he hadnot moved the big generator in yet. They stole the motors, all exposed wiring, and the entire knife sharpener, which is now unobtanium brand. So this expensive project sits...and I was gonna get to work it and do a lot of harvesting of pine around here, so it cost him and it cost me potential dollars and something I could do to help around here and not have to commute to make some more moolah.
He goes through a few tractor trailer loads every six weeks in shavings, and that stuff ain't cheap. They ruined it for a few hundred bucks "scrap" metal. And forget trying to go to yards and find the stuff, anything comes in obviously "new" or in good shape (stolen) gets buried and shipped out as fast as possible. I would think 99% of the scrap yards out there take in stolen stuff daily.
Elect me clerk in chief, one of first emergency orders is close all export of scrap metals, national security issue. Not end scrapping..just no exports. Recycled inside the nation. The way it is now has caused huge crime increases all over the country, with all that "collateral damage" when they steal stuff, and just going to make it much easier and much cheaper for china to dominate the world in manufacturing.
It's a sorry and bogus and rank policy they have as it is now with metals. Freeking short sighted idiots, or they don't care to get those big short term profits, or both.
Manufacturing is the number one way to produce real wealth, all that phony electron bank shuffling around, those casino games, is a joke.
Wouldn't bother me a bit if it dropped the prices of so called "scrap" down to 10% of what it is now, that might be just enough margin then in cost cutting to reopen factories like we used to have, have them be profitable, and get millions of US jobs back!
danrclem
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Glad to hear that the thief got caught, cuffed and stuffed.
I work with a guy whose brother got electrocuted in a sub station trying to steal copper. His brother said that it could have happened that way or he could have been pushed into it by some of his good friends.
I work with a guy whose brother got electrocuted in a sub station trying to steal copper. His brother said that it could have happened that way or he could have been pushed into it by some of his good friends.
Dalmatian90
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Town next to me caught a tweaker stealing railroad spikes...he wasn't difficult to catch...he tried to outrun the Crown Vic in a scooter loaded down with the spikes. That line only has a daily local that's usually carrying polystyrene stuff for Dow Chemical, and the "big one" which is a 100 cars of ethanol headed to Providence to be blended with gasoline.
derailing 100 cars o fine booze for the manufacture of gas-o-holy doesn't sound like a real bad idea. bonus points if they could be diverted to a plant that makes a form of beverge :msp_w00t:
xrayman
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I have some good neighbors like that one is even a cop. 3 yrs ago my female lab was going nuts outside, she only barks when some thing weird is going on. I went outside and she had to guys standing on top of my wood pile and was going to rip their butts off if the got down. I called the sheriff dept and the sent out a deputy. I had my 9 mm on my side but there was no need to pull it since the dog had them under control. They just kept pleading with me to call her off, told them no not till the deputy came. One was on parole and the other had a length rap sheet. The Deputy who is also a friend just laughed when he showed up.
Number of years ago, a guy came into my shop hit the the cash drawer and took flight. I was at the back of the shop. Unfortunately for him My brittany was laying just behind the counter. Now Scrappy was a big brit, He also figured any thing he could see was his. and would take real exception to the removal of items if i wasn't around. Anyway he lit out after the guy who barley made to the sidewalk out front before finding a 55lb highly irate brit standing on his chest. Boy was that guy squealing. Brit had things under control so Went inside and called LEO. Few minutes later they come rolling up. Officer gets out looks at guy with brit on top of him looks at me and asks for me to remove dog. I told the officer ( real loud so the perp could hear) that I could ask Scrappy to give him up, but he caught him so it was his toy. Thought the officer was going to have a heart attack he started laughing so hard. Anyway the perp got 90 days in the clink and 2 years of probation. ( The officers called a second vehicle in caused the perp had soiled himself so bad they didn't want him in their squad)
Iron Head
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Should have shot him and be done with.
Why waste the jail space for 5 years.
Why waste the jail space for 5 years.
Should have shot him and be done with.
Why waste the jail space for 5 years.
Imprisonment's Costs /81002/
I know that there are flaws in any prison system, but that link seems to be rather biased. I suspect the author has relatives in the pen, and has an axe to grind.
Mac88
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When I was a kid growing up in Florida, I used to see the convicts cleaning roadside ditches along the
highways. There were always two guards, one with a side arm, one with a shotgun. They worked pretty
much from sun up to sun down. When they got back to the prison, there was no air conditioning, no gym,
and no color television. It wasn't inhumane treatment, because they still lived a lot better than many of
the law abiding folks, especially our military personnel . I think they need to bring that system back.
highways. There were always two guards, one with a side arm, one with a shotgun. They worked pretty
much from sun up to sun down. When they got back to the prison, there was no air conditioning, no gym,
and no color television. It wasn't inhumane treatment, because they still lived a lot better than many of
the law abiding folks, especially our military personnel . I think they need to bring that system back.
That system is alive and well in Arizona. Az doesn't play softball with perps or illegals...
Mac88
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That's the way it ought to work.
