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Re: Railroad Newsline for Wednesday, 03/14/07 Copper thieves.
Author: Carol L. Voss
Date: 03-14-2007 - 18:06
Ross Hall Wrote:
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> Just as was done with cold medicine, the state of
> Washington and others are getting ready to pass
> mountains of regulations that could end most
> recycling as we know it. Only aluminum cans would
> be exempt. But drug dealers and users would
> continue to walk the streets freely. Saw a news
> item today about a guy arrested for abusing his
> children and neglecting them and dealing drugs.
> Had 49 drug dealing convictions, 19 theft
> convictions, 4 assalt convictions, 12 auto theft
> convictions AND WAS YET TO SERVE ANY TIME IN
> JAIL!!!!! But I can't buy cold tablets that work
> because they could be used to make meth! And I'm
> soon going to have to give a scrap yard a boatload
> of personal information, prove ownership of scrap
> materials, and wait three weeks to sell a truck
> load of scrap metal---to help prevent people from
> buying meth.!!
15+ years ago it was aluminum sprinkler pipe----my husband lost over $10K worth and ultimately he and the other growers had to invest in labels for each pipe telling ownership, contact information without which supposedly the scrap dealers wouldn't buy.
C.
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> Just as was done with cold medicine, the state of
> Washington and others are getting ready to pass
> mountains of regulations that could end most
> recycling as we know it. Only aluminum cans would
> be exempt. But drug dealers and users would
> continue to walk the streets freely. Saw a news
> item today about a guy arrested for abusing his
> children and neglecting them and dealing drugs.
> Had 49 drug dealing convictions, 19 theft
> convictions, 4 assalt convictions, 12 auto theft
> convictions AND WAS YET TO SERVE ANY TIME IN
> JAIL!!!!! But I can't buy cold tablets that work
> because they could be used to make meth! And I'm
> soon going to have to give a scrap yard a boatload
> of personal information, prove ownership of scrap
> materials, and wait three weeks to sell a truck
> load of scrap metal---to help prevent people from
> buying meth.!!
15+ years ago it was aluminum sprinkler pipe----my husband lost over $10K worth and ultimately he and the other growers had to invest in labels for each pipe telling ownership, contact information without which supposedly the scrap dealers wouldn't buy.
C.
