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<p>[QUOTE="karrlot, post: 325865, member: 4476"]Its getting to the point that they need to have metal recyclers do some kind of due diligence if they have things come in that look suspicious. If you ran the metal recycling company, and some one brought in a 5 foot tall statue (or even pices of a statue that had been cut up) there's no way you wouldn't have some kind of clue that something was fishy. </p><p><br /></p><p>I don't know what they could do, but maybe even if they required ID on suspicious looking stuff. I don't know how you would police that. </p><p><br /></p><p>Over spring break last year, someone stole all of the copper from the airconditioning units at my kids school. It was tens of thousands of dollars to get it replaced and get the units back up and working again. One of the teachers had left her car in the parkign lot over night. When she got back, someone had stole the cateletic (sp) converter. It cost $300 to fix it. The mechanic said that there is some type of metal in it that is worth a lot of money to recycle. They have had a lot of people coming in with the same thing happening. </p><p><br /></p><p>How long till we see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty" rel="nofollow">this</a> one in the recycle bin?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="karrlot, post: 325865, member: 4476"]Its getting to the point that they need to have metal recyclers do some kind of due diligence if they have things come in that look suspicious. If you ran the metal recycling company, and some one brought in a 5 foot tall statue (or even pices of a statue that had been cut up) there's no way you wouldn't have some kind of clue that something was fishy. I don't know what they could do, but maybe even if they required ID on suspicious looking stuff. I don't know how you would police that. Over spring break last year, someone stole all of the copper from the airconditioning units at my kids school. It was tens of thousands of dollars to get it replaced and get the units back up and working again. One of the teachers had left her car in the parkign lot over night. When she got back, someone had stole the cateletic (sp) converter. It cost $300 to fix it. The mechanic said that there is some type of metal in it that is worth a lot of money to recycle. They have had a lot of people coming in with the same thing happening. How long till we see [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty"]this[/URL] one in the recycle bin?[/QUOTE]
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