A tad racist but I wonder how many people consider, without seeing the guard, why a big black guy is more intimidating than a big white guy,
Has the city lost it's mind...
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Mikedezo44
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Dumb criminals. Where did they think they were going to take it in to turn it into cash? Did they have a plan to drive it across the province to take to an unsuspecting, or unaware of the situation scrap yard? Or maybe cut up a couple of km worth of wire into 1 foot chunks? Surely any scrap yard within 100km of this would have been called and warned to turn these guys in.
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Four charged after cutting down hydro poles, stealing copper wire
Provincial police say four people are facing charges after they allegedly cut down more than 30 hydro poles and stole copper wire from them in a remote area in northern Ontario.
www.chch.com
Does the $100,000 value cover replacement?Dumb criminals. Where did they think they were going to take it in to turn it into cash? Did they have a plan to drive it across the province to take to an unsuspecting, or unaware of the situation scrap yard? Or maybe cut up a couple of km worth of wire into 1 foot chunks? Surely any scrap yard within 100km of this would have been called and warned to turn these guys in.
Four charged after cutting down hydro poles, stealing copper wire
Provincial police say four people are facing charges after they allegedly cut down more than 30 hydro poles and stole copper wire from them in a remote area in northern Ontario.
I fixed a bunch of copper heating cables after some deadbeats ripped down the copper eaves troughs of a church. They may have netted a thousand dollars. My bill was $13,000. The electrician's was more and the coppersmith's was out of sight. Probably a hundred thousand in total.
Five dollars a pound for bright copper.
Lots of scrap yards will take the don't ask, don't tell approach.Dumb criminals. Where did they think they were going to take it in to turn it into cash? Did they have a plan to drive it across the province to take to an unsuspecting, or unaware of the situation scrap yard? Or maybe cut up a couple of km worth of wire into 1 foot chunks? Surely any scrap yard within 100km of this would have been called and warned to turn these guys in.
Four charged after cutting down hydro poles, stealing copper wire
Provincial police say four people are facing charges after they allegedly cut down more than 30 hydro poles and stole copper wire from them in a remote area in northern Ontario.
Back in the 90s my uncle worked for a copper tubing manufacturer. They were buying scrap and noticed that it was their copper... long story short inside job, working with a truck driver and a scrapper. Frequent extra roll on the truck, extra roll of new copper to the scrapper...
Similar happened at my old company. Few guys set it up so deliveries of copper / wiring would come in at night and they’d take it out during the day on other deliveries but to their own buddies.
Did it for years. Until the business slowed down and people noticed that the same amount of material kept being bought even though they weren’t producing anything.
Sting and they caught and fired all of them. No charges.
Unlike this 12 year old for attempted murder while out on other charges…
Boy, 12, charged with attempted murder in Markham shooting
A 12-year-old boy has been charged in connection to a shooting in Markham last month.
toronto.citynews.ca
Attempted murder, discharging firearm….all while on bail….and gets bail again…
toronto.citynews.ca
Family of Markham shooting victim demands bail reform
The shooting occurred on Aug. 14 in Markham near McCowan Road and 14th Avenue, where a man was found with gunshot wounds.
toronto.citynews.ca
Judges have completely lost the plot.Attempted murder, discharging firearm….all while on bail….and gets bail again…
Family of Markham shooting victim demands bail reform
The shooting occurred on Aug. 14 in Markham near McCowan Road and 14th Avenue, where a man was found with gunshot wounds.
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YCJA/YOA needs major reform. I have no issue with some leniency for petty crimes to give kids a chance to be dumb and reform. Once you have permanently affected someones life, I don't care how young you were, your life should be permanently affected. Violent crimes should automatically put offender in the normal justice system with normal consequences.
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Ship them off to Baffin Island and let them figure it out themselves. If they survive a year, they can get the benefit of 25 years in a max jail.
If they don't, at least the Polar bears will be fed.
Shaman
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Both. They roll it up into stolen grocery carts, pour gas over it all to try and melt off the plastic coating, and then strip it all.
It must be a cast-iron b!tch to do.
There's some members here that know a little too much about getting copper out of plastic sheathing...
Instead of spending billions on battery plants, we'd probably be infinitely better on the environment file if we spent tax dollars on wire strippers for each encampment of unhoused people.
Shaman
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That's the smart ones. There's few of those.
The reason I know that they do it this way (either way) is that my tower climbers watched a couple of guys do it in a field nearby when they were up one of my telecom towers @ 250' or so.
Same tower, about 10 years ago they called the police because in the same field (it's just north of Kingston) they had a meth cook lab set up and the fumes were making the guys on the tower sick. Apparently it's like burning Draino or something.
We only climb that thing when required, so I'm sure there is plenty of @#$&ery going on in that field all the time.
I watched a ship breaking yard in south India stripping insulation off cables , ten yr old kids inhaling God knows what chemicals from the wires and chopping asbestos cement cladding off pipes with machetes . The other jobs were dangerous so they gave these to kids .
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bigpoppa
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the bottom of the supply chain always looks very different from the top...
Glenn/RZ500
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The more motivated ones come here to carjack and rob the LCBO and run criminal enterprises, much better benefits.
Honestly with the youth today...may as well just arrest the parents at the same time as the kid.
Maybe then people will take some responsibility for their kids' actions.
Doubtful...but one can hope.
Maybe then people will take some responsibility for their kids' actions.
Doubtful...but one can hope.
