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High-Voltage Fences For Zapping Would-Be Copper Thieves
coondoggie writes "It may be a gimmick or the ultimate answer, but a California city this week okay-ed a draft ordinance that would let businesses install 7,000-volt electric fences to protect sites from rampant copper thieves. As reported by the Sacramento CBS station, the reaction from one business owner to the ordinance says it all: 'It'll be a little fun to watch one of these guys get electrocuted holding my fence trying to rob me.'"
Start making the recyclers who pay cash for copper keep records and start prosecuting them for receiving stolen goods.
I deal with a scrap dealer all the time and trust me, what you're saying is so naive and moronic it's off the charts. That wouldn't work for about 100 different reasons. It's the same as a pawn shop. He asks the right questions and sort of gauges the person's behavior but beyond that, you have to take their word for it about where it came from. By the way, I see cops taking gear out of the pawn shop all the time.
Yeah, because regulatory compliance and associated paperwork, government inspections, lawsuits, and penalties impose 0 costs on businesses.
If you want to see what zero costs looks like, I suggest you turn off Rush and read Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle".