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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.
Bingo, as stupid as copper thieves are they'll figure out in a hurry that a cheap pair of gloves and some cutters will make short work of an electric fence.
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How about instead of spending billions on replacing stolen goods and electric fences and insurance we instead spend millions giving away free crack, heroin and other addictive drugs? You get a card and you can go to a drug store and get free heroin. We'd save a LOT of dollars.
I think you don't actual have a clue and are making that up.
We are talking about huge rolls of unused wire, industrial valves that cost 30k+, statues. Sometimes 100's of yards of copper.
So when some cones tolling it with a giant spool of wire in there truck, that person gets photographed. If someone reports large bundles of wire stolen, then police can ask that person questions .
Forensics. You need to watch less CSI.
The police report a large copper valve has been stole and provide description. The get a thumb print and picture. Possible an address(which may be a lie).
Then they do investigation.
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Having worked in the recycling industry for years, solving the "sales" side of this is easy.
A posted and implemented policy of paying by check if the payout is greater than $20 makes most of these problems go away.
This works because large volumes comes in trucks and legitimate businesses generally prefer to receive a check (prevents employee skimming).
After that, invest in a few video cameras, particularly one trained at the parking lot exit (to pick up rear license plates). Attach these to a motion-detecting video recorder and make sure you know how to burn DVDs. The few times we have had to involve law enforcement, they were pretty happy with a plate number and footage including a face and "the goods".
So far, we have never had the check cashed, but if we did, the cops would then have a tie to the criminal's financial institution and we would join their case with a counter-suit to get our money back.
Keep in mind that we really do not want to make an illegal buck, but at the same time, we also want to earn the legal bucks as efficiently as possible.
If businesses are people, then why aren't they put in jail when they break laws? Why aren't they required to pay income taxes, social security, serve in the army if there is a draft,.......
Businesses may EMPLOY people, and they can be OWNED by people. But they are certainly not people themselves.
Yeah yeah, another pothead who wants legal drugs. Meth at the drug store? Fuck you.
I'm tired of rich, white well-to-do hipster liberals like yourself who think legal drugs are a magical cure for all our problems. It's a solution that works for YOUR way of life, not for everybody else's.
I'm poor and have been homeless for eight years of my life. I've seen drug abuse first hand and it is fucking terrible. Just look at how poor people handle alcohol, cigarettes, and prescription medicine. We abuse the hell out of it. Why do you think every run down neighborhood is teeming with liquor stores, run by people who live out of town? There's a huge demand because we drink to forget, we get high to numb ourselves. We have miserable lives and we need to escape as often as we can. Legalizing drugs is like giving an heroin addict $1000 and assuming he won't misuse it. He'd OD in an hour.
Flooding us with legal drugs is just what white hipster douchebag 20-somethings want to simplify their habit. Now you can get high on your family skiing trips easier, or in your dorm. That it will somehow help the poor is a label you can conveniently apply to make it look like you are enriching our lives.
Stop act like you are doing us a favor. If you gave a shit you'd help the poor rise above the entrapment of vices and the fucking vicious cycle of dependency and addiction. This whole pro-drug movement really feels like a way to destroy the lower class. Everyone else can get high conveniently and go to their rehab when things get out of hand, and the rest of us will drown in a sea of cheap, legal drugs.
It's just another way to keep us down.