Speaking of Theives

We had a Ford car lot hit , they cut many cataletic converters off with cordless saws . They allerted the local scrap yards but never found them .

Larry --ont.

prolly cause the scrap yards are about as bad as the thieves

I retired from a GM dealer two and a half years ago, a couple years before the steering wheel air bags were missing on about 9 cars one morning, all but one were new Caddys in the front row by the highway under the lights. No other damage getting in or removing them, looked like they were done by a surgeon. Always wondered if some GM engineer could have opened them up with OnStar.

There always seems to be a scrapyard somewhere that will take just about anything, and always seems to get by with it. The nearest scrapyard to me is only about five miles, a good clean facility, so I don't have to worry as much about cutting a tire, etc. But, I have never met the owner! If he is on the premises,he must stay in his office. The reason I told that I had never seen him is because if he doesn't go out to the yard much, then he likely would not know what all was there, right?
So, about a year or so ago, he was arrested for possession of stolen goods in the form of several manhole covers. They had been stolen from a road building project about twenty miles away. He has a good crew of regulars, but every time I go by there, there is always a new face or two, so obviously someone was slack about checking things out. Generally, they are right on top of things, like the time I carried four vehicle radiators in. They not only wrote down the tag number off my truck, my drivers license number, and made me stand beside them while they took my picture! I never did hear what came of the charges against him, but I have a feeling that they were dropped.

Don't know if they ever stole and sold any but about 3 years ago someone pryed my bil's brass military marker almost all the way off. I shudder to think what might happen to them if certain people caught them doing such thing.

I know of a pawn store that knowingly bought stolen goods. The cops set up a sting, put the man out of business, took his life time business, checking, savings, house, everything. So in his case, crime doesn't pay..

My scrap yard requires a photo ID and has computer records of every item I take there. Hope the cops put the rest of the scrap yards out of business.

BTW, the scrap yard I use has very little business because of low iron prices.

The scrap yard close to me videos every vehicle as they go across the scales,then they copy photo ID before issuing a check.

There was a man several years ago here in Texas. That was caught doing that. He fell down so much. He had to stop by the local hospital. Before he got to jail.