Federal Intervention Needed Now

[lastone]

With copper theft out of control, why not stop it now before the idiots figure out where the 'real' haul is and how to get it. Perhaps the FBI could put agents undercover in key scrap metal yards....or something. It's being sold somewhere....and so far the guys arn't too smart. But that will change. If this ever goes 'big time' the industry will be in a huge mess. When we start seeing copper ingots at scrap yards, it's too late.

[Ace Purple]

The price of copper has shot through the roof in the past 16 months.

[oldtvman2]

back in the late 50s the local drunks would take a stick ,after a rain, and start draging it across the bottom at wplh-wwhy (can't remember when the call changed) and when they snaged a ground wire they would just pull it up and after getting several they would sell them. several people went to jail because of this. it caused a lot of problems with their sig. there was a 12' by 12' copper screen at the base and this was finaly put under cement. this was to make it harder to find the strands. i remember they had to replace the ground system several times. this would happen in the summer after the weeds got high enough so they could not be sean from the transmitter.

[Chris Lawrence]

I remember the Big Stone town drunk crawled under a building when I was in high school and was stealing copper tubing, but cut an active gas line. He then proceeded to light a cigarette. Yeah, he actually survived--the idiot.

[Dave Harman]

http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/7989922.html

"One wrong move by a copper thief could be deadly. Noel Richardson says, “People can get killed up here by taking the wrong item...cutting the wrong wire...â€