this is exactly what copper would say
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No, check ebay if you don't believe me. It's not exactly plentiful, but there are enough contractors with several hundred/thousand feet left over from big jobs who are selling it for wholesale or less. It's not like you can recycle it, and splicing is unreliable without tools that cost as much as a car, so if you've got a partial spool you need to get rid of you'll probably have to sell it at a loss.
are you saying they wouldn't find a buyer?
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How bad is your neighborhood that you have to label cable spools to prevent material theft???
The entire continent of africa
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I think turning someone's tires to solid steel would be pretty funny
Curse you, autocorrect!
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are you saying they wouldn't find a buyer?
No, it's a little more nuanced than that.
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That’s true, but aren’t financial crimes or organized crimes are where the smarter people are? Stealing raw materials to sell at shady recyclers is low bar moron crime.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Commodities tend to hold value pretty well, especially in poorer areas/nations, and if the operation is decentralized, the risks for the organizers is near zero.
If something is able to be easily taken with a plausible disguise or with low risk (the ol' hard hat, safety vest and clipboard "security pass", or just an unguarded jobsite) there will be opportunists.
For someone with greater skills, that's low hanging fruit that's not worth the risk of getting caught on camera, but the more desperate you are, the more risk you're willing to accept.
Of course, taking cable in the first place is a dick move and will negatively impact the local area and utilities as a whole, so it's a slap in the face for the entire community tbh. Some people don't care though...
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You can buy a set of keys on Amazon that will run almost any piece of equipment found on a construction site for like $15.
https://www.amazon.com/Equipment-Construction-Caterpillar-AT195302-Takeuchi/dp/B0F7LG3FTV
Don't even need to do that. No immobilizer, you can just LPL the situation or hotwire.
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People: The surveillance state will eliminate privacy!
Rando on the internet: If you wanted your house to be private you shouldn't have had grass.
So you're saying 4chan was a trend-setter for geoguessr? XD
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Commodities tend to hold value pretty well, especially in poorer areas/nations, and if the operation is decentralized, the risks for the organizers is near zero.
If something is able to be easily taken with a plausible disguise or with low risk (the ol' hard hat, safety vest and clipboard "security pass", or just an unguarded jobsite) there will be opportunists.
For someone with greater skills, that's low hanging fruit that's not worth the risk of getting caught on camera, but the more desperate you are, the more risk you're willing to accept.
Of course, taking cable in the first place is a dick move and will negatively impact the local area and utilities as a whole, so it's a slap in the face for the entire community tbh. Some people don't care though...
wrote last edited by [email protected]Yeah, but the real money is in the price fixing and crony contracts from bribed city planners.
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What??? You realize very smart people become criminals. The crime world is basically the same as the mainstream. And all of it intertwines anyway, street crime and mainstream unethical things.
The same drive someone puts into a PhD can be put into being criminal. Fact is successful criminals don't get caught. Some of them even become presidents, military personnel, cops, and politicians...
Start with crime, build money and get then ease into legal life. Shitty pop rappers for example. ...a sloppy example of people that don't do it well.
Thievery isn't the only crime. It's not even particularly lucrative. It's mostly done by desperate people who don't know better or independently wealthy thrill seekers who don't care about the take.
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Thieves don't care if it's a nice neighborhood. It happens on building sites everywhere. They don't mind driving a long way.
meanwhile here they left a massive spool of obvious copper laying on the ground with nothing protecting it whatsoever, and it remained completely untouched for like a week
