So, how do you double the value of a VW buss? You load the back up with scrap copper wire!
Thanks, Tom Hargrave www.kegkits.com 256-656-1924 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 12:03 AM To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Subject: Re: [MBZ] copper thieves/copper scavenging is not new! In a message dated 12/20/2007 10:15:03 A.M. US Mountain Standard Tim, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Copper stealing probably takes a lot of work considering the profit also. Risk of getting caught would seem high also - although those on this list seem to keep getting hit - Back in 67, I was just out of the Navy, and I took a facility engineers job with a big insurance company in San Francisco. They had just added a 120,000 square feet of office space and we were ready to hook up the new substation. The electrical contractor had tape measured the empty conduits and precut and terminated several 500MCM power cables ( the copper is about the diameter of a skinny index finger and I think the pieces were about 40 feet long). All was ready on Friday with a scheduled shut down on Sunday morning to install the cables and heat up the sub station. You guessed it--on Sunday morning, the cables were nowhere to be found. It seems the night janitor foreman had been scavenging copper scraps for years and had hit the big bonanza! While his crew was cleaning up, he was "cleaning up" too. He had to cut the cables into pieces small enough to carry, and also to fit in the back of his VW bus! I think there were 12 cables at 40' each, so you can imagine how much weight was in that bus! Not sure how long it took him, or if he made more than one trip. There were several janitors that fingered him ( he wasn't too well liked) and a lot of pressure to fire him. But he had some kind of job guarantee for life and continued working there with reduced responsibility. Jim Friesen Phoenix AZ 79 300SD, 264 K miles 98 ML 320, 152 K miles **************************************See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004) _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
