Now the scrappers are robbing cemeteries!
http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/20297018/scrappers-target-historic-detroit-cemetary
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Now the scrappers are robbing cemeteries!
http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/20297018/scrappers-target-historic-detroit-cemetary
"Now"? lol
"Effin idiots. Few things get me riled more than cemetery vandalism.
Why is it you never hear about scrappers nor the companies where they cash in getting busted?
Like EZZ said - why isn't somebody going after the companies that buy the scrap????? Buried or cremated - it really doesn't make a difference - we've read stories about urns with ashes being stolen...no respect for the living....no respect for the dead....Tell you one thing, i sure wouldn't mess with the dead...Karma's coming!!!!
Some people have no respect for the living, why be surprised that they have no respect for the dead?
Gates locked. Brass doors weigh more than your average door. How do transport brass doors without having vehicle access?
You don't.
unless the perimeter is compromised, I would suspect the guys running the place are doing the dirt.
Please enlighten us as to how you bust a scrap yard???
Scrappers show up at a scrap yard with a pickup of metal and say it was a legitimate removal. The yard registers their driver's license and pays them for the metal. Midland was busted and shut down earlier this year for accepted stolen cars without registration, but how do they tell if a pipe or gate was stolen or not? It's not like there are serial numbers stamped into cast iron pipes and registered with the police.
As for scrappers getting busted, have you ever heard of google? There's hundreds of busts. Here's one where six men were caught dismantling a city owned building at State Fair and Hoover this year and charged with intent to steal, a five year felony. http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/local_n...-in-hand-cuffs Police confiscated 4 trucks and several cutting torches.
Here's another where 22 scrappers were arrested so far scrapping the vacant fire damaged Robson Academy http://detroit2020.com/2012/06/07/va...et-old-school/
I could go on and on posting hundreds of links of scrappers getting busted from a simple google search, but why should I if you're too damn lazy to google it?
That's ok, Bing's opening mini-stations! That'll stop these mean ol' scrapper!!! :o
A scrap yard buying a brass mausoleum door that weighs a ton knows damn well what they're buying and where it came from. The same with the many sculptures, historical plaques, and streetlight parts that have been scrapped around here. The excuse "how's the scrapyard supposed to know?" really only goes so far, and we've been WAY past that point for several years now.
You're right, of course. But this is partly Detroit residents fault. Until they demand better and accountability from City leaders, the status quo is just going to go on. Worse, the story will inspire new would be scrapper wanna-be's to try pulling the same stunt @ other cemeteries. I rememeber reading a story a few years back, where former residents were having loved one's remains exhumed and moved to cemeteries outside of the City because they felt unsafe coming into Detroit and being alone in the cemetery. Just no respect, and a sad state of affairs.
These are poor, homeless people just looking for a place to lay their head. All we need to do is extend their entitlements and everything will be fine. They mean no harm and are just looking out for all their illegitimate children so that no child goes without this holiday season.
When will all end? I feel the same as I observe every building in SW Detroit covered in increasingly sweeping tags, huge swaths of paint now several feet high covering buildings and streetscapes that stood dignified and quiet for a century. Now they are ugly cartoons. When will it end?
Why should Detroit residents have to beg police to perform the most basic types of law enforcement? Protecting the structures that house people and businesses is only common sense. If there are no structures left for people to live in or to conduct business there will be no tax base with which to pay their salary.
Your city and state laws make it easy for scrappers to steal.
You could just ban transportation of non-purchased metals altogether. Only individuals registered and licensed with the state or city would be able to perform that work [[like a contractor). A job number and address of the original location of materials would have to be shown at the scrapyard.
What this means is businesses or individuals that work with metals like contractors or auto repair mechanics are the only ones benefiting from recycled value.
Anyone else, such as myself, that doesn't work in these professions won't see a dime from any discarded metals I'm trying to get rid of. Oh well...who cares. Most of us don't do that. It's the poorest of the poor that travel around the city looking for anything that can be traded for value....except often times its stealing.
There's also the little fact that scrap metal yards are tax-paying businesses, in a city that has a quickly declining number of them. And they have been known to contribute to the campaign funds of a few elected officials.
You literally hit a stone wall any time you complain about scrapping and try to get something done about it.