In its nearly 80 years of business, things have run smoothly, Lucchetti said.
But that recently changed.
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That's nothing new. I lived in Stanislaus County just to the south of Stockton and wire theft there was so bad that in new construction, they were installing all the HVAC units on top of the houses instead of beside them because the tweekers were gutting the units before the houses could be sold.
If you had a pre-existing unit on the ground in some parts of the county, it was caged.
I look at this the same as the catalytic converter thefts - the shit is only valuable if you can sell it. So where are these tweakers selling the copper wire? Stake that out and when some drugged out loser shows up with a bunch of cut wire, arrest them, take them to the station, and arrange for them to fall down some fricking stairs!
ReplyDeleteIn the Houston area there are only 3 or 4 places you can go to sell cat converters. I mean, damn! Just stake it out and if you see Julio and his pendejo friends pull up with 15 or 20 converters in the back of their pickup and they don't run a muffler shop, shoot them on the spot and hang the bodies from telephone poles as a warning to others.
But oh now, let's just put up some surveillance cameras and hope we get lucky? Screw that, there is no real law enforcement anymore.
Don Curton May 4, 2023 at 6:43 AM
Delete"there is no real law enforcement anymore"
There is nothing but the Real(TM) and True(TM) enforcement of The Rule of Law(TM). It says so. Right there in The Constitution. There can be nothing else. Says so. Right there.
You are Loyal? Aren't you? Citizen?
Hey AnonymousMay 4, 2023 at 1:01 PM, what is with the (TM)s?
Deletejust wait until they figure out how much copper is in those EV charging cables. and that there is several pounds of copper and a pound or so of platinum in a 5G antenna. should be fun watching them getting one of those off the tower.
ReplyDeleteThey've already figured that out. Plenty of photos of truncated charming cables out there.
DeleteYou need to show a state issued ID to sell to a recycler, the detectives just don't don't want to spend the time looking through the records.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't using cell phones fix the immediate problem?
ReplyDeleteThis being California, have the business owners been punished yet for not taking the copper down themselves and handing it to democrats' favorites, making them do the hard work?
ReplyDeleteIf there's a buyer for something then a tweaker or dirtbag will steal it. Ban the purchase of these materials from non licensed parties and the problem ends. This isn't complicated?
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