Why a pilot scheme and then a 'roll out'? Why not just introduce it?
Does it mean they need time to teach scrappies to read?
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About time too!
There should be serious penalties for metal theft due to the damage to the infrastructure it causes and risks to life and limb.
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>> There should be serious penalties for metal theft due to the damage to the infrastructure it causes and risks to life and limb.
Occasionally we get an 'own goal' where somebody gets fried whilst stealing cable from railways, electricty suppliers etc etc etc.
Some local councils have taken to leaving the lights on 24/7/365 to deter the scum.
SA exports R4-BILLION in copper each year. Yes, that's ~400 million quid if my maths is correct. We don't have copper mines here. It is all recycled/stolen.
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My understanding is that most of our stolen metal is now shipped out of the country by organised gangs, so policing the scrap metal market is largely pointless.
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How do you know? I suspect a lot scrap metal dealers are owned by or 'under the influence ' of organised gangs.
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...I suspect a lot scrap metal dealers are owned by or 'under the influence ' of organised gangs...
The classic make-up of a south east London armed robbery gang includes a scrap metal dealer - and a motor trader.
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>> ...I suspect a lot scrap metal dealers are owned by or 'under the influence '
>> of organised gangs...
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>> The classic make-up of a south east London armed robbery gang includes a scrap metal
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Usually in order to melt down bullion.
- and a motor trader.
Provides the driver and the mota.
The mota usually ends up back at the scrap metal dealer.
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Plenty of metal in Cornwall still: being scrutinised even now. As the price goes up it makes extracting these metals (gold, indium, copper, tin) more likely.I also have high hopes for Alderley Edge mines:)
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>> Plenty of metal in Cornwall still: being scrutinised even now. As the price goes up
>> it makes extracting these metals (gold, indium, copper, tin) more likely.I also have high hopes
>> for Alderley Edge mines:)
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Alderley Edge mines are for gold diggers.. of the female variety who chase after Premier League t#ssers - the kind who believe in Super Injunctions to protect the privacy of their mistresses...
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Plural, the lucky swines.....................
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"The classic make-up of a south east London armed robbery gang includes a scrap metal dealer - and a motor trader."
Oi ! Why just SE London - leave us alone or your granny gets it.
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It won't be the requirement to produce a photocard driving licence that scuppers most of the dodgy ones, but the utility bill; unless that includes bottled gas! ;-)
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Perhaps it should be a British Driving License that's required
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>>Oi ! Why just SE London - leave us alone or your granny gets it.
An update on who gets the railway spoils
"Metal worth £13m has been stolen from the railways over the past three years, police have said."
Costliest railway thefts
Loxdale Street (fibre optics) - £300,000
Loxdale Street (cable) - £300,000
Stoke-on-Trent - £300,000
Preston Road - £275,000
Pontefract Tanshelf - £160,000
Clipstone - £150,000
Greenock West - £150,000
Kinkerswell - £130,000
Roy Bridge - £125,000
Darlaston - £120,000
Canning Town - £100,000
Ludgershall - £100,000
Figures for April 2008-October 2011
More details here:-
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16382806
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Its making gricing a bit tricky, I filmed from one place where I was standing ankle deep in stripped off insulation, the p ikeys had been there three days earlier and had 300 metres of signal cable away, stripping the metal out on site. Network rail were just finishing off the replacement. BTP on site were a bit hostile at first.
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ID required if selling scrap metal - Mike Hannon
