Author Topic: There`s copper in them thar hills........ (Read 718 times)

Maverick · « **Reply #15 on:** August 01, 2006, 01:44:17 PM »

It's been repoprted fairly frequently in the Phoenix area as well. Lot's of airconditioners getting hit.

In a way it's kind of funny. Copper mining in AZ. used to be the number one money maker until the miners decided to strike for wages that put the mines out of business. ONce they drove the cost of production above the income from mining the mines all fired their miners and kept on a miniscule skeleton staff just to say they were still operating. That way they didn't have to fill in the open pits and clean up the other nasty side effects of mining.

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #16 on:** August 01, 2006, 01:46:46 PM »

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Originally posted by Maverick
It's been repoprted fairly frequently in the Phoenix area as well. Lot's of airconditioners getting hit.

Messing with someones AC in AZ should be a hangin offense.

Dinger · « **Reply #17 on:** August 01, 2006, 02:00:55 PM »

Hey, you gotta pay the pharmaceutical companies for all the pseudoephedrine hydrochloride they make. And they make far more than people get colds.

PonyDriver · « **Reply #18 on:** August 01, 2006, 02:32:25 PM »

I don't think this would happen in my neighborhood....there wouldn't be much left of the thief trying to mess w/ my Ac, by the time the cops arrived.

Jackal1 · « **Reply #19 on:** August 01, 2006, 02:42:44 PM »

<-------Points and laughs.
Gotta catch em first.

Iceman24 · « **Reply #20 on:** August 22, 2006, 03:12:03 PM »

I doubt very seriously if there is a single judge in TX that would convict you for shooting someone messing with your AC

Seagoon · « **Reply #21 on:** August 22, 2006, 03:31:53 PM »

Hi Jackal,

Yeah it's gotten to be something of an epidemic around here, for instance this news story from the local paper isn't uncommon:

Employees of Mastech and Nicholson Electric said Aug. 7 someone broke into an office building on the 3100 block of Camden Road and took $20,000 worth of copper wire and three fire extinguishersvalued at $300.

Kind of makes you question how long a civilization can keep going when the infrastructure is literally being stolen.

straffo · « **Reply #22 on:** August 22, 2006, 03:53:05 PM »

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Originally posted by eagl
I heard that aluminum works better than copper anyhow.

Try to make a motherboard with aluminIum

Reschke · « **Reply #23 on:** August 24, 2006, 01:01:19 PM »

I'm just looking for 20,000 metric tons of scrap steel to send to VietNam???? Other than that when I was working for a construction company right after college the jobsite was a housing project that was built in the 1940's and they had copper gutters, downspouts, and awnings on every building. I got extremely lucky and got the sub contract to haul off all of that "scrap material" since it was being replaced with aluminum. This was 1996 and I made a killing on it at the scrap yard. I made enough in three months to pay cash for a brand new 1996 Toyota Camry for my wife that was fully loaded. We even pulled down all the awnings, gutters and down spouts from buildings that were not scheduled to be redone for another 6 months but no one ever questioned us about it.

BTW it still happens here that people go after old copper. I helped a guy on a contract when he bought the scrap copper at a bunch of old drive in theaters. We had to jackhammer all the lines out of the pavement that went to the speakers; to get it all up then we left the place just standing there stripped bare.

Sox62 · « **Reply #24 on:** August 24, 2006, 01:16:45 PM »

Dinger · « **Reply #25 on:** August 24, 2006, 01:21:23 PM »

Straffo, it's aluminum. Only silly brits and foreigners who have been repeatedly abused to believe that English speakers actually go about their business in some artificial Oxbridge dialect use aluminium.

Terror · « **Reply #26 on:** August 28, 2006, 02:24:30 PM »

More copper being swiped. This time from a church:

Metal thieves tear up chunk of church roof

Terror

StarOfAfrica2 · « **Reply #27 on:** August 28, 2006, 02:37:23 PM »

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Originally posted by Dinger
Hey, you gotta pay the pharmaceutical companies for all the pseudoephedrine hydrochloride they make. And they make far more than people get colds.

Cold medications dont use pseudoephedrine anymore. Go read the ingredients on all your old favorites, they did away with it and replaced it with something else that doesnt work nearly as good.

StarOfAfrica2 · « **Reply #28 on:** August 28, 2006, 02:39:18 PM »

Copper theft has gotten so bad here that theives steal it out of the light poles on the highway. One day you drive to work and a string of lights 3 miles long doesnt work because they stole the copper wiring.

Last week someone stole the copper gutters and downspouts from a school gymnasium.

straffo · « **Reply #29 on:** August 28, 2006, 02:58:22 PM »

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Originally posted by Dinger
Straffo, it's aluminum. Only silly brits and foreigners who have been repeatedly abused to believe that English speakers actually go about their business in some artificial Oxbridge dialect use aluminium.

It's a typo I used the french spelling