[TheForge] why church bells are not stolen was Re: the theft of metal public

[Ries Niemi]

"yourself"?
What about the light rail tracks, the airport runway light cables, the stoplight wiring, and the other rich targets- you know, the public projects where, instead of one crummy heat pump, there is 4 miles of copper ground wire as big as your thumb?
who is gonna hang around every 100 feet, 24/7, with a shotgun, there?

much much simpler just to require scrapyards to see ID, write checks rather than cash, and, then, have a tiny fraction of the number of government employees regulate the junkyards. A tiny fraction of the number we would nee if we went to an armed guard police state.

In the states where there is more regulation of scrap yards, there is lower theft rates.

ries


On Apr 21, 2015, at 7:23 AM, Andrew Vida <osan at netlabs.net> wrote:

> I meant doing it yourself.
> 
> 
> On 4/18/15, 9:42 PM, Bruce . wrote:
>> You're forgetting that "hanging out" is expensive -- guard duty.  So you
>> pay the lowest possible salary to have somebody else hang out there, thus
>> calling especial attention to the value of the item being guarded.  Guard
>> "falls asleep" on duty and guards buddies walk off with metal.
>> 
>> Bruce
> 
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