Go carefully in Essex

merkin

Watch out in Essex, and other areas in fact. Thieves have been stealing manhole covers. :evil:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/essex/8626997.stm
This really cheeses me off. The injuries they can cause are horrific just so they can get next to nothing worth of scrap steel.
as far as I know steel is worth about £70 per ton. A ton is a huge amount of manhole covers.

lost_in_thought

Pikeys round that way, innit.

rally200

lost_in_thought wrote:

Pikeys round that way, innit.[/quot


you can't go round saying the Pikeys steel scrap metal !

That's the "Dids" job

ps - Lit - do you want your drive tarmaccing?

downfader

It was happening down here in southampton about 4 years back. What scapyard worth their salt lets a guy come in with what is OBVIOUSLY a manhole cover and a) doesnt take down any details/get ID and b) thinks "this is a sound investment"

Isnt just manhole covers though. Leading off roofing, copper pipes and wiring from premises, you name it. These gangs are taking what they can.

mybreakfastconsisted

Personhole, please.

downfader

mybreakfastconsisted wrote:

Personhole, please.

Why, feeling frisky?

Radioactiveman

At our local scrappy they have to see your car number plate before they let you sell scrap, what a joke like they couldn't steal on of those as well.

My favourite scrap thieves are the ones they find charred like a pork scratching attached to a live copper busbar in a substation

Splottboy

Yeah, the Mrs had some nice knockers tolen of the washing line too.

Oh! "MAN-HOLE" covers...Sorry, wrong type.

Splottboy

Yeah, the Mrs had some nice knickers stolen of the washing line too.

Oh! "MAN-HOLE" covers...Sorry, wrong type.

lost_in_thought

rally200 wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

Pikeys round that way, innit.

you can't go round saying the Pikeys steel scrap metal !

That's the "Dids" job

ps - Lit - do you want your drive tarmaccing?

No ta, I like my slate roof.

:P