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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: bijou on March 06, 2008, 02:40:13 PM
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libnnc (1000+ posts) Thu Mar-06-08 03:17 PM
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Um, people are so desperate in Greensboro, they're stealing manhole covers
No shit. This is a first in my lifetime.
Manhole covers stolen around city
Updated: 03/05/2008 08:39 PM
By: Kira Mathis
GREENSBORO -- More than 70 manhole covers have gone missing around Greensboro recently.
Storm water maintenance supervisor Tim Elmore says covers have been stolen before but usually just a few at a time, most likely for a teenage prank.
"Over the 28 years that I've been here, I've never seen this many being gone at one time," he commented.
Elmore thinks they are being sold to scrap metal companies.
"I mean the price of scrap metal has gone up. We've seen it increase just like the price of everything else so we feel pretty confident that they're probably being sold," he explained. <snip>
http://news14.com/content/local_news/triad/593606/manho...
Some usual whining and then this, a DUmmie who on any view can hardly be called desperate.
flyarm (1000+ posts) Thu Mar-06-08 03:30 PM
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5. by my Jersey beach house they are stealing copper pipes in outside showers..
my whole street has been hit!!
fly
She should be glad to share her copper with the poor. :-)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2968047
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Are we to understand that otherwise upstanding PTA members are now so hopeless in this * economy that they have taken to stealing manhole covers in order to feed their children? Are we to be lead to think these manhole covers would be stolen even if scrape metal prices weren't through the roof right now?
I get dizzy trying to see life through DUmmie glasses.
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Damn this Bush economy! It's making people steal manhole covers!!!!!!!!
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flyarm (1000+ posts) Thu Mar-06-08 03:30 PM
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5. by my Jersey beach house they are stealing copper pipes in outside showers..
my whole street has been hit!!
fly
Bouncy.
DUmmies don`t ever get close to a shower.
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Manhole covers weigh about 100lbs.
Anyone know what the recycle price is for cast iron ?
I check the net and one site said 55$ a Ton
I cant see people going out and stealing 20 manhole covers,
tranporting them to a scrapyard for 55 bucks.
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Manhole covers weigh about 100lbs.
Anyone know what the recycle price is for cast iron ?
I check the net and one site said 55$ a Ton
I cant see people going out and stealing 20 manhole covers,
tranporting them to a scrapyard for 55 bucks.
I know copper is up. Stealing copper is an ongoing problem in the building industry.
I have an 8x4 copper sheet in my garage. It weighs 110lbs. It's what I play to retire on. :lmao:
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My jaw just dropped, at the comment made by the Leona Helmsley of DUmmieland, flyarm.
What Leona has is considered merely a "beach house" by her?
The thing looks about as big as where Barbra Streisand lives, and just as opulent.
Horse-stables, too.
Damn.
"Beach house"?
One suspects Leona could have housed, comfortably, about 300 refugees from Katrina there.
Damn.
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Naked Copper here can go as high as $28/pound
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If one steals a manhole cover to sell for scrap isn't it highly likely the scrap dealer will be highly suspicious that he is dealing with stolen property?
I don't know, maybe recycling manhole covers is more common than I suspect, but I would think such things would come from city officials. I suppose they could come via a contraster, though. I just seems like someone trying to recycle a manhole cover would raise some red flags.
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seriousstan (1000+ posts) Thu Mar-06-08 03:31 PM
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6. Greensboro has an unemployment rate of 4.7%, hardly desperate.
libnnc (1000+ posts) Thu Mar-06-08 06:22 PM
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12. Whatever.
Devastating riposte! Like so many other DUmmy arguments, just pure rhetorical genius!