c_maguire

Documentary just started on BBC1.
Having just read peoples opinions regarding the 2 who fried themselves in the stolen car, metal theft is one crime that gets my goat. Either because the thieves are so unbelievably stupid, or due to their total disregard for the danger or inconvenience they cause others.

Stealing manhole covers is the one that really beggars belief.

Or instances such as the tools who tried cutting through a live conductor with a hacksaw. When plod arrived the hacksaw was stuck in the cable with an arm attached to it.

No idea yet what's in this program, lots of trains I expect.

dpb

No arms yet


Perpetrators should be shot imo

RA Dunk

I've not alot of time for this lot either, deserve everything that happens to them TBH. with the price o scrap metal going up all the time it's getting more common as well.

Worlasshasansti

Yep scum of the earth!

Let em fry

Mick

c_maguire

Bloody manhole covers

RA Dunk

Imagine walking into a church and stealing, low life scumbags!

RA Dunk

Ahh yes, war memorial thiefs even more low than car thiefs due to the lack of respect shown for the dead.

Intresting to know the gang was mostly foreign, the ones interviewed were anyway.

pimmo2000

iTrader: (6)

Well you say that, but if you don't have any faith then a church is another place to steal.

I personally think stealing a manhole cover is worse than stealing from a church, the church is rich, the poor ******* that falls down the hole isn't likely to survive .. (hole depending)

RA Dunk

One of them actually blessed them selfs in the church before they stole it. Some of the injuries were fooking horrific though.

ScoobyWon't

There's a kid in Hucknall, who decided to remove the live cables from a sub-station. There was a rather large explosion, but he survived and after hospital treatment, he was back out there doing it again.

All of which, get treated on the NHS, for free. There should be a clause saying that any injuries caused through criminal activity will not be treated on the NHS.

It's not just the nurses who have to patch them up, but the doctors and surgeons who reconstruct the limbs etc and then the hours of rehabilitation they receive with physiotherapists. Plus they occupy beds that the naturally sick need, require feeding, and often require two police officers stood their until they are fit to be released, as you aren't allowed to hand cuff them to the hospital beds. A true waste of money and resources.

RA Dunk

That woulden't be a bad idea really, but as most of these 'tards' are jobless fcukwits they woulden't manage to pay for any kind of other treatment.

Bristol98

And the problem with that is?

jpor

iTrader: (1)

Werent the last lot shown immigrants? Seem to have a east European twang to their accents? Just goes to show what people come into this country try and get away with, apart from the free NHS etc..

RA Dunk

the problem with what?

RA Dunk

Yea I noticed this as well, we let them in here give them everything they need and they pull this ****, after there release from jail they should be sent home.

Martin2005

I've added a very important word to your post

urban

iTrader: (1)

Just an arm?

jpor

iTrader: (1)

Yes, can't tar all immigrants with the same brush now can we

c_maguire

Yes, just an arm.
If the volts, and then the current, are high enough it's truly shocking what can happen.


Flatbed Transit, Irish driver, full of scrap metal.
If you were the scrap metal dealer what would you think?
I remember one documentary where they filmed scrappies taking complete bus shelters, manhole covers obviously County Council stock, and armoured cable still sealed on rolls.
These scrap metal dealers should get automatic custodial sentences.

tubbytommy

iTrader: (20)

is it called big fat gypsy weddings??

this is full of thieving *****.

urban

iTrader: (1)

I shall watch this on the iPlayer

Bristol98

Their inability to pay for any treatment, tough titty!

kingofturds

iTrader: (1)

At our old work place we had a few idiots who would try and nick metal almost on a nightly basis. I nearly ran over and crushed one of them over one night. As he was sat in his van with his lights off at 3am in the morning.

His excuse for trespassing was he lost his dog.

mattvortex

I thought a law had just been introduced , that if you take any scrap to a dealer, then the money now has to be payed into a bank account so its traceable?
I know you're still going to get the dodgy dealers take no notice of this but should put a few off.

Iam taking a car battery and an old dishwasher to my local scrap dealer later this week, so i'll find out if he still gives cash or not!

markjmd

iTrader: (11)

I remember one story in the news a year or two ago, a guy and his mate went into a (seemingly) disused National Grid facility of some kind. The next thing he knew about what happened that night was waking up in hospital a whole month later, and being told that his various injuries included part of his skull being blown off.

Amazing he survived at all really, and he'll probably never truly be right in the head.

beef-on-the-bone

iTrader: (5)

i'm an electrician and make 2/3 visits to the scrappie anaually.

what i am taking is waste from my job, armoured cable offcuts, batteries, household/panel wiring offcuts, glands, if a cable is big enough i'll strip it

took some last week that took me probably 6 months to collect, got nearly 400 quid that is paying for participation in a couple of upcoming stag do's!!
have to show id, vehicle reg, no longer get cash, was paid straight into my bank, they know i'm a sparks, no problems here!!

mrmadcap

Do you have to pay tax on that?

J4CKO

iTrader: (1)

Hmm thats an interesting one, however getting a lot of trades to pay tax on normal earnings may well be a starts, present company excepted !

kingofturds

iTrader: (1)

Is that Henry Orchards?

beef-on-the-bone

iTrader: (5)

yes.......

no tax paid on it, no problem if i had to tbh, i can see this happening at some point though.

btw i don't work for any rail or telecoms company!