Oberer says crime has cost him

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this is an....

issue that plagues ANYONE and EVERYONE that "exposes" what's now considered a high priced scrap commodity like copper.
I've even heard of thieves climbing up on house roofs, during construction, and prying loose & stealing copper roof cladding.
Products like PEX pipe, which has gained a HUGE increase in usage over the last short while is DIRECTLY attributed to the huge jump in copper prices, and is actually changing the way that cooling systems are being designed and implemented!!
Many new (old) applications rely on the LEAST amount of copper derivative products, and MORE on water/glycol based cooling tower systems, and water chillers....old technology, brought to "new" life!
 
Those thefts are a real problem in our area also. There was an article in our local newspaper last week about copper being stolen from construction sites.

I surely and sincerely regret your losses, Randy! I hope you will not have to move your business to another location.

Randy is only 44?!?
 
Seems to be spreading.... I'm at a MAS user meeting in Savannah, and almost every florist here from around the country mentioned that this has happened in or near their area.

I saw a report where a penny, worth as we know 1 cent, is actually worth 1.28 cents for the copper....hmmmm, maybe I should just scrap those 4 coffee cans full of pennies ;)
 
My husband works for Granite Const. Yesterday, they caught a guy in a U-haul trying to steel copper.. in the middle of the day! One of the bosses chased him down the hill while someone in a loader raced to block the exit.. the theif in the U-haul ran into the loader..Group effort!
 
Mikey the Flower Guy said:
in history, a penny is worth MORE than itself!!
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This made me SOOO chuckle... My Dad , a man ahead of the times to be sure ,
figured copper would be very valuable one day and pennies would be worth more than a cent. This was in the late 1970's. I was working in New York City, my parents lived in a very small rural town in New Jersey. Now Dad didn't want anyone in his town to know he had this valuable stash so he decided that I should purchase 100,000 pennies ( yes you read that right) in New York and haul them home. Only problem was that I took the 2 trains to work every day and walked about a mile after that. Well my husband and I did it, it took months of bringing those little suckers home in my brief case( totally wore one out) every day. Talk about a work out!! So Dad had his stash of "precious metal". The funniest part was when Mom and DAd decide to move in 1995 Dad tried to turn in the pennies and the local bank didn't want them-they had to make a special Brinks run to get rid of them!!! Now I bet he wishes he had 'em...thank God I live in Florida now!!!
 
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