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OT: Converter Thieves Beware!

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El Toro

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They found a man in a local salvageyard dead in Baltimore from a car falling on him when removing and stealing a catalytic converter. I guess the bumper jack slipped. Pretty steep price to pay. Hal
 
Thieves came to my farm in Mn. and stole all the catalytic converts and radiators from my cars and trucks...

There is no one living there,they also broke into all the buildings and stole tools and misc..

also tractor weights I had on two pallets, one pallet had an almost complete set of "pie weights" for a Ford, others were John Deer weights, and some from other tractors, must of been easy as I made it too easy for them, I should of let the weights lay in the woods on the ground, and not had them on pallets all in one place... lesson learned

One would think that the local scrap place would be suspicious of their "haul" of the tractor weights especially,but I guess no one cares

~Will
 
Funny thing---Local news reported about this kind of theft and stated that they can remove the converter in a few minutes with a cordless reciprocating saw. They even stated that many trucks don"t even have to be raised up. They told what converters sell for at salvage yards.

My point is---How many people now know how to steal these expensive items thanks to the news media?
 
A couple local TV stations ran a piece on how meth is made. In the following weeks, police made several arrests where the culprits mentioned they had learned how to make it and where to steal the ingredients from watching TV.

"Creating the news and then reporting it".
 
Salvage yards here are now required by law now to make you show ID like license and record your information off that and what you sold them. Even if just taking aluminum cans in. If yards do that there you should have reported it stolen. Thieves here were tearing copper wire off sprinklers was $5000+ damage on some so ones they caught are put away for a while we hope.
 
The salvage yards will go to extremes to hide the fact that they took in stolen metal since it would take money out of their pocket to report it or get found out. When the stuff's confiscated by the cops then how does the yard recoup their $$? They can't so I think they try and look the other way since they are greedy for the money that comes from metal whether stolen or not.
 
Not a steep price to pay at all since he was worthless scum. A freebie for society I'd say. Too bad it doesn't happen more often. If you should happen to see someone stealing a cat converter, pull the jack out.
 
A couple months ago thieves were stealing manhole covers in the Atlanta area, they got 15 in one sub division in one night. The county then put a few welds on each cover and that stopped them. They weighed around 120 lbs and were selling for $15-20.
 
I was at a farm auction today.They had an aluminum flag ploe advertised on the flyer.The night before the sale someone cut it off at the ground and stole it.
 
Kinda like when the new programs talk all about the "new drug" all the kids are doing. Then they go into detail about where it is made and how, and ussually talk about where kids are buying it. Opening up a whole new market of teens that had never even heard of the stuff before!
 
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