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 Posted - 07/29/2006 : 19:11:39
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Found this article of interest
There's Gold in Them Thar Smelly Hills
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<snip> A single ton of junked PCs has more gold than 17 tons of ore. That's why landfills might--just might--pay for their own cleanup.
Cyle Young bought a house this spring in Springfield, Ohio, planning to remodel and then flip it for a quick profit. But the project cost a lot more than the real-estate broker expected because a band of thieves descended on the vacant house. When Young drove by just two days after buying the property, the aluminum siding was gone. Soon afterward, the robbers had the nerve to come back once more and rip out all the copper.
Young is just one of dozens of victims in a wave of heists in western Ohio. The perpetrators pose as construction workers when they remove the metals from houses, apartment buildings, even churches. Strange cases of metals theft are being reported around the nation: Bandits fled with the copper cables that pulled the vintage trolleys in Yakima, Washington. The streetlights went out in Tucson, Arizona, when someone ran off with eight miles of copper lines. A longtime Third World crime has suddenly become widespread here.
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Ardent Listener
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Posted - 07/29/2006 : 19:22:57
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Welcome to the "third world".
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realcent
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Posted - 07/29/2006 : 21:54:54
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Hi Shadomoon, welcome to the board!
Thank you for the article. I think we will be seeing alot more of this sort of thing in the future.
I think it would make a good first post to the new Scrap metal forum, so I am moving it over.
Doug
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