Who Does Crap Like This

[guido911]

This week's "waste of gametes" award goes to whoever stole a disabled 2 year old's walker.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/06/04/2011-06-04_disabled_2yearolds_walker_stolen_from_outside_his_home_in_pennsylvania.html

[cynical]

Scrap metal thieves, probably on meth (it's not just on Oklahoma phenomenon) will take anything to sell to dealers. A number of years ago someone stripped the copper tubing connecting something to the gas line in a vacant house in West Highlands III, I think, Just off of West 61st, without turning off the gas. A neighbor smelled gas and called ONG, who sent a worker out to check on it. He drove the truck into the driveway, walked to the front door, smelled the gas all right, and was returning to his truck when the house went off like a bomb. The gas worker was killed and pieces of the house were blown hundreds of feet in all directions. A human life was traded for a little scrap copper.

This week's "waste of gametes" award goes to whoever stole a disabled 2 year old's walker.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/06/04/2011-06-04_disabled_2yearolds_walker_stolen_from_outside_his_home_in_pennsylvania.html

[Hoss]

Scrap metal thieves, probably on meth (it's not just on Oklahoma phenomenon) will take anything to sell to dealers. A number of years ago someone stripped the copper tubing connecting something to the gas line in a vacant house in West Highlands III, I think, Just off of West 61st, without turning off the gas. A neighbor smelled gas and called ONG, who sent a worker out to check on it. He drove the truck into the driveway, walked to the front door, smelled the gas all right, and was returning to his truck when the house went off like a bomb. The gas worker was killed and pieces of the house were blown hundreds of feet in all directions. A human life was traded for a little scrap copper.

I remember that explosion out in West Tulsa but never knew what caused it specifically.

[Ed W]

The city of Pittsburgh had a metal sculpture that was to be installed in one of the parks.  It was a jumbled mass of aluminum tubes.  But while the city prepared a concrete pedestal for it, they placed it off the side of a nearby road.  Sure enough, two guys in a pickup truck saw it and stopped.  They broke out some hacksaws, tossed the tubing in the back of the truck and drove away.  The city found the sculpture a few days later in a scrap metal yard.  The artist was livid, of course, but I've always wondered if the two guys were secretly art critics.

[guido911]

And then there is this:

A train engine derailed Wednesday in the Myles Standish Industrial park after police say someone stole two eight-foot lengths of railroad tracks.

http://www.enterprisenews.com/news/cops_and_courts/x724664797/DEVELOPING-Train-derails-in-Taunton-after-railroad-tracks-stolen