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Originally Posted by vaman4215
Just like here we moved into a new house in November of last year, I had 2 Mercedes radiators and AC condensers sitting beside my garage door, was running late that night with getting unloaded, so I left them there, didn't think anything about it. Came home after work next day and they were gone. The next week someone stole a bunch of electrical wire I had thrown in a wheel barrow outside my shed. They only took the wire, after moving other stuff off the top of it...Now neighborhood teens wonder why I own't let them cross my yard!!!!! After putting up with stinking theives, am tempted to put up a 6-8 foot tall fence, or an electric fence and let the cross the yard at their own risk!!!!! I had enough wire to wire my garage with, so now I've had to go out and buy wire....That really ticked me off when they stole the wire....So much for the days of being able to trust your neighbors.....
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I can guarantee those parts, and wire were stolen by a scrapper. I owned a recycling company in Ct. for a long time, until I sold it last year. These guys will take anything not bolted down, for a few bucks more worth of scrap dollars out of the back of their greasy rusty pick-up trucks. On countless occasions, people came to me to retrieve their stolen items. I would also get parts, and things that were either pretty close to, or brand new for scrap. I had to start marking stuff coming in at night for a while, because they would hop the fence at night, steal from my yard, and come back with it the next day for scrap dollars. Your radiators went through a frag machine, got bailed up and shipped, or went into a pile where they still sit. I'd bet anything the copper electrical wire has been stripped, and had same fate. These fat greasy slobs can be surprisingly athletic if it means another five bucks added to their load of materials for scrap.