Went to work the other day and one of my guys called me on the mobile to say he couldn't get the portakabin lights on. When I walked over it turns out the thieving swines have chopped off about 40 feet of armoured cable from outside the cabin!!!

This is the fourth or fifth theft in the past 6 months. I was told by the police that the scrap dealers are only legally obliged to record the type of metal and the weight of the metal being brought in. It's hardly surprising most of the local smack heads are nicking everything that moves.

One of my other guys told me he recently popped in to East Stirling football ground to use the toilet and he noticed someone had dug up and stole the cabling for the floodlights.

It makes my blood boil. Something has to be done sharpish.

Have break in's in Newton Le Willows every week, remember, we're building fire stations! Guess it ain't the unmoveable locals, but more the transient caravan folk!....Or c**t as we know them!

SSm

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There's an e-petition on the subject.

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/406

Being saying this for a while,any look around a scrap yard at the moment is a real eye opener as to what is being nicked and property distroyed to gain a bit of scrap

Went to the scrap yard the other week to take a cylinder back and the was brand new copper pipe in scrap bins along with aluminium scaffolding, as said industrial copper cabling list continues ,it was all in full sight of everyone, it should not be allowed, scrap yards need a big clamp down as regards regs, even if that means I have to pay tax on all my scrap, would do it ,just to stop this legalised vandalism

|Now see same villains moving on the nicking stone ,ripped down old stone wall ect and selling through reclamation yards

ps petition sighed

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Revoking scrap dealers licences if they accept any 'dodgy' scrap is the simplest solution. Scrap is only valuable to the buyer - without a buyer the seller has his hands full of....well, scrap!

Greed exists on both sides - the dodgy scrap dealers who will, no doubt, realise the scrap is stolen therefore offers only a token of its real value to the seller. It's akin to corner shops selling booze/tobacco to under-aged kids. Some shops try to get away with it - until the council runs a 'sting' operation and they lose their booze licence. Serves them right.

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Signed, quite a good idea actually although not fool proof.

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Nothing is fool proof scruff....the fools just keep getting better!

Set a trap? Put some copper piled up nicely, pour on some uv dye. Then tell the dealer to look out for the dye.

The pikey bastards need to be stopped.
You could always threaten to make them work for a living like a respectable member of society, they'd probably stop them.

its not all pikies weighing good stuff in, I've seen plumbers wieghin in good lenghts of copper and fittings, That really annoys me, their boss is paying £150 for a bundle of 22mm copper and they're weighting it in for scrap, grrrrrr, I've tried to buy the pipe but the scrappie man wants the full new price, double grrrr If they worked for me I'd sack them and then sue them for heavy losses.

theres a van dalen scrap yard in my home town. they advertised in the local paper for any metal. fetch it to us and we will give you money for it.

i quite regularly take copper pipe i remove from jobs. tanks. cast. radiators etc. dont like giving it to scrap blokes anymore since they insist on doing this caper where they drive about with someone on the roof pinching stuff from peoples back yards. i used to only take copper or lead in myself but sod em lol may aswell cash the lot in

Megaross that wouldn't work matey. The scrap dealers aren't interested where it came from.

What I would like to do is electrocute the thieving c**ts when they come back next time but don't know how to.

Those vans are a blight on the world!

I've watched one go into my garden and take some stuff, then knock on the door asking if I've got scrap - went outside and told him to put it back. Then he forgot how to speak English, so I told him I was either getting it back, or he was getting some more metal (but not in his van).......they put it back!!

Tossers.

BG

Sometimes they are.....

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-storie ... -23538675/

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I Know it says I'm On-line, but I might have just left myself logged in, whilst I'm out....

Still, makes a mockery of the system.

3.5k of lead - ordered to pay 500 quid compo and 80 hours community service......whats minimum wage? if it was 7 quid, then it's still only 1k restitution towards the crime. What about police time, court time, etc.....

f*ck the f*ck hands off.

I did notice the compo and the scrap value of the lead were the same. Nice of the courts to take into consideration the cost of the new lead, someone to fit it etc too...

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