Thieves in Edenfield snatch nine metal grids in a week (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Thieves in Edenfield snatch nine metal grids in a week
8:10pm Wednesday 11th April 2012 in Edenfield
A SPATE of metal grid thefts are being investigated in Edenfield.
Nine grids were stolen in a week – four from the Rochdale Road area and five from Burnley and Bury Roads.
Daniel Herbert, Rossendale’s highways manager, urged people to report missing grids. He said: “We’re proactive in working with the police to prevent thefts of grids as a successful prosecution following a spate of thefts last year in Hyndburn shows.”
Eden Ward candidate Darryl Smith said he feared the thefts would cost huge amounts to replace and were a danger to pedestrians and motorists. He said: “We have had at least nine gulley covers stolen from roads in Eden Ward in the past week.
“The people doing this have no regard for others. While they may be making a fast buck they are endangering lives, cyclists or pedestrians could fall into one of the open gullies and break a bone or worse.”
A police spokesman confirmed the thefts had been reported and they were investigating.
Comments(10)
icannotrace
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11:41pm Wed 11 Apr 12
gazzandste
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1:31am Thu 12 Apr 12
icannotrace wrote:Dont be fooled there are plenty of them that would buy anything. Remember they will make a big profit from any scrap deal.
But what are they going to do with them? Surely there are no scrappers what will actually buy them?
everywhere is sh1t
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7:41am Thu 12 Apr 12
icannotrace wrote:they will all buy them as they just weight the van then let them unload it onto a pile so they are throw out and covered before the yard knows
But what are they going to do with them? Surely there are no scrappers what will actually buy them?
Jack Herer
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10:52am Thu 12 Apr 12
To get done for metal theft, you have to be taking it on an industrial scale - getting haulage firms to turn up for you, and then loading them up with stolen metal, big massive wagons - repeatedly, over months.
That was an actual recent case; the only one I've ever read regarding a conviction for metal theft. Other than that - forget about it. It might well be a career for scummy criminals but the authorities don't actually seem bothered by it at all.
Hey ho, we're catching those harmless pot heads though if it's any consolation, even though they have no victims.
New World Order.
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10:52am Thu 12 Apr 12
gazzandste wrote:Eden Ward candidate Darryl Smith said: While they may be making a fast buck. Hardly a fast buck more like fast buck's.
icannotrace wrote:Dont be fooled there are plenty of them that would buy anything. Remember they will make a big profit from any scrap deal.
But what are they going to do with them? Surely there are no scrappers what will actually buy them?
It could be a well organised gang who look just like council workers to the extent of putting sign's and cones out while they nick them.Nine cover's in Edenfield and nine from half a dozen other town's smelt them down into cast ingot's.Big money involved if that is the case.
Cha'mone MF
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12:52pm Thu 12 Apr 12
Cha'mone MF
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12:54pm Thu 12 Apr 12
everywhere is sh1t wrote:Hmmm a bit of professional inside information there maybe?
icannotrace wrote:they will all buy them as they just weight the van then let them unload it onto a pile so they are throw out and covered before the yard knows
But what are they going to do with them? Surely there are no scrappers what will actually buy them?
mavrick
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1:45pm Thu 12 Apr 12
Malthus
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6:09pm Thu 12 Apr 12
mavrick wrote:Surely then it would be a good Idea if the council and utility firms replaced them all and weighed in the ones that are taken up.
They can be replaced with a very strong nylon/plastic grid which will carry the same weight. I believe they are cheaper than the metal grids.
carrman2 says...
11:22pm Wed 11 Apr 12