I got some copper gas pipes.

Built a Couple Buildings in Houston back around 2012. Plans called for a HEAVY DUTY perimeter fence around th' Outside Condensing Units. Word was as a LOT of th' KNEE-GARS from New Orleans were re-located to th' area after Katrina......and NEVER went back Home. N.B.N.

Yes, it passed and made it tougher on the unscrupulous scrap buyers and easier on LE a lot of times as the druggies are looking for a fast buck and not always thinking about getting caught in a couple of days. Ethical scrap buyers, or those that don't want problems at least, turn people away all the time.

I'll bet the person that fought against the law said that he opposed it because the poor, Black people that pick up cans off the side of the roads often don't have IDs. While he has a bit of a point, State issued IDs are free in Alabama, so it isn't that they can't afford it.

If you ever wonder how unscrupulous some of these scrap buyers can be, a company in Dallas County reported a bulldozer stolen. A week or so later while checking the list of scrap turned in to one of the buyers, a detective noticed a bulldozer on the list. He went to check on it and found a fully functioning dozer, the same one reported as stolen, in the scrap yard that was bought at scrap price. I know it went to the Grand Jury, but not sure of the outcome.

Couple meth heads cut down all of my power lines to the water at my lake house a few years ago. Cost $14,000.00 to fix it and they may have gotten $10 for the copper in the wires!

Couple was found lying beside a church ac unit couple year back here in Florence . Apparently they tried to cut 220 service line to unit with pair bolt cutters

All my water lines inside the house are copper. The lady that lived here before us was a health nut.

My sister bought an older house in Cullman county and the drain lines were copper.

I've seen this in Vestavia. Chemicals made a hole in it. It was a 2" line.

We had a dude climb into an AL Power substation and cut the wires. I don't even know if those are Copper. Anyways when the workers showed up to get the power restored they found him and called us. He looked about like the squirrel that got caught in the transformer close to my Pecan tree. He was literally still smoking.

A few years ago my parents had moved and were trying to selll their old house in Huffman. Thieves got in the crawl space and cut out all of the water lines. When my Dad discovered it the water was still running. where it entered the crawl space.

I found a big copper ground rod on the side the road just a few weeks ago. Won't be long and I can trade it for financial security for me and the grandkids...lol

That coffee can full of wheat pennies gonna make me rich!

I think one of the perps lives in the house down the hill from my FIL house in Valley Grande. I say this because someone stole the AC unit from the side of the house and a friendly neighbor said this guy does HVAC work and probably stole it. He also looks like a crack head.

I never liked carrying or fooling with pennies so over the last 60 years I’ve accumulated several buckets of them.

TT, I hate to break the news to you but that ground rod is steel core with a copper coating . Copper is too soft to be driven past rocks and hard ground.

My dad used to buy a $100 worth of pennies and unroll them all while checking for steel ones or really old ones. I got 3 full penny books and a couple partials. The last cloth bag of loose pennies is in a closet corner some place.

If you have full sets of wheat pennies they can be worth a little bit. Any wheat penny from 1909 can be worth the trouble to get checked out but collectors get picky and the price difference over a micro-detail can be a 4 or 5 digit difference, but most wheat pennies are just copper weight. Here is a price guide for wheat pennies. 98% of all wheat pennies are going to grade below 60, so do not get too excited if you have a good date but you can use the guide to figure out which one's you might want to explore further. https://www.pcgs.com/prices/detail/lincoln-cent-wheat-reverse/46/most-active

Bunch of cat 6 and feeder cable saved up. Might be the time.

https://whnt.com/news/decatur/joe-w...d-for-information-on-copper-thieves/amp/


MORGAN COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) — Joe Wheeler EMC’s Director of Operations Patrick Turner says thieves are putting their lives in danger after grounding wires were stolen from multiple utility poles over a week ago.

That was right by my office