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2022-09-14 at 3:29 PM UTC
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2022-09-14 at 8:09 PM UTCThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2022-09-14 at 8:12 PM UTCWhen a family moves out of a home they usually leave several hundred $$ worth of copper behind. Waste not, want not!
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2022-09-14 at 8:51 PM UTC
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2022-09-14 at 8:57 PM UTC
Originally posted by Murk Lore You mean you break in to steal their house wiring?
And in many older homes the copper plumbing. It is worth more per lb than wiring as it is clean copper. People used to just burn the insulation off the wire but most scrap yards no longer take wire that has been "stripped" with fire due to EPA crap. If you take the time to manually strip the wire it gets a price competitive with copper pipe. But that is a time consuming affair.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2022-09-14 at 8:59 PM UTCWhat about electric motors, such as from washing machines?The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2022-09-14 at 9:05 PM UTC
Originally posted by Speedy Parker And in many older homes the copper plumbing. It is worth more per lb than wiring as it is clean copper. People used to just burn the insulation off the wire but most scrap yards no longer take wire that has been "stripped" with fire due to EPA crap. If you take the time to manually strip the wire it gets a price competitive with copper pipe. But that is a time consuming affair.
LOL. I never broke into a abandoned house
I wonder if the Detroit ghost towns or Harlem or Bronx had been stripped by gangs who were planning robberies when all was required was doing actual work.
Even giving meth heads free meth to do the work for their lazyasses -
2022-09-14 at 9:06 PM UTC
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2022-09-14 at 9:06 PM UTCThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2022-09-14 at 9:14 PM UTC
Originally posted by Murk Lore LOL. I never broke into a abandoned house
I wonder if the Detroit ghost towns or Harlem or Bronx had been stripped by gangs who were planning robberies when all was required was doing actual work.
Even giving meth heads free meth to do the work for their lazyasses
The gangs have no need to bust their asses yanking pipe and hauling to the scrap yards for pennies. They let the crackheads do that and take the money from them one rock at a time. -
2022-09-14 at 9:17 PM UTCThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2022-09-14 at 9:19 PM UTCThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2022-09-14 at 9:21 PM UTC
Originally posted by Murk Lore You mean you break in to steal their house wiring?
Is it really stealing if nobody lives there anymore?
It's not like anyone factors the copper into the selling price like "umm actually the front door got kicked in and the walls are gutted and copper all gone, so we are bidding $100k under"
If that was true you could just go into poor areas and wreck all the homes or pay crackheads in crack to do it and then underbid all these gutted houses and since you stole all the copper it costs you nothing to put it back in and you could probably hire the same crackheads to do it -
2022-09-14 at 9:23 PM UTC
Originally posted by Ghost Is it really stealing if nobody lives there anymore?
It's not like anyone factors the copper into the selling price like "umm actually the front door got kicked in and the walls are gutted and copper all gone, so we are bidding $100k under"
If that was true you could just go into poor areas and wreck all the homes or pay crackheads in crack to do it and then underbid all these gutted houses and since you stole all the copper it costs you nothing to put it back in and you could probably hire the same crackheads to do it
Yeah cuz a house with running water and electricity is worth no more than one without.
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2022-09-14 at 9:48 PM UTCThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2022-09-14 at 9:51 PM UTC
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2022-09-14 at 10:02 PM UTC
Originally posted by Speedy Parker Yeah cuz a house with running water and electricity is worth no more than one without.
God yer a dumbass
You can't even steal the pipes and wire if the water and power is cut on so I don't see your point.
Originally posted by Donald Trump Clearly the gangs are in the better union.
Yeah, their dental program includes cocaine, the king of tropical anesthetics which you can't even get working for most fortune 500 companies -
2022-09-14 at 10:18 PM UTC
Originally posted by Ghost You can't even steal the pipes and wire if the water and power is cut on so I don't see your point.
They don't steal pipe and wire from occupied homes they steal from foreclosed or, as you mistakenly call them, abandoned homes. Foreclosed/abandoned houses do not have power and water dumbass.
Yeah, their dental program includes cocaine, the king of tropical anesthetics which you can't even get working for most fortune 500 companies -
2022-09-14 at 10:27 PM UTC
Originally posted by Ghost Is it really stealing if nobody lives there anymore?
It's not like anyone factors the copper into the selling price like "umm actually the front door got kicked in and the walls are gutted and copper all gone, so we are bidding $100k under"
If that was true you could just go into poor areas and wreck all the homes or pay crackheads in crack to do it and then underbid all these gutted houses and since you stole all the copper it costs you nothing to put it back in and you could probably hire the same crackheads to do it
If a place gets stripped for copper they sometimes knock it. It's cheaper than paying to fix all the damage the stripping process causes.
Originally posted by Ghost Is it really stealing if nobody lives there anymore?
It's not like anyone factors the copper into the selling price like "umm actually the front door got kicked in and the walls are gutted and copper all gone, so we are bidding $100k under"
If that was true you could just go into poor areas and wreck all the homes or pay crackheads in crack to do it and then underbid all these gutted houses and since you stole all the copper it costs you nothing to put it back in and you could probably hire the same crackheads to do it
I had experience of this in New York back in the day. It was at some YMCA building in the Bronx that had been gutted and that we were levelling. The building had been half built, then gutted and destroyed by the local diverse youths. What I heard was that the metal was very cheap at the time (2003 or so), the main expenses with doing up gutted buildings was cleaning up after them - replacing plasterboard, wood, etc, and putting in new wiring and plumbing according to the original diagrams. The diverse youths were insanely destructive, and as well as all the metals being stolen all the windows were smashed, including the roof, etc. As a result the economic decision was made to knock the whole thing. -
2022-09-14 at 10:50 PM UTC
Originally posted by Speedy Parker abandoned homes. Foreclosed/abandoned houses do not have power and water dumbass.
Originally posted by Speedy Parker Yeah cuz a house with running water and electricity is worth no more than one without.
The way I see it, if you ain't cutting that water on you ain't selling the bitch, because as you say its worth more with it, so if they disconnect the utilities there is nothing wrong with "disconnecting the utilities" and taking them down to the junk man.
