My dad caught scrappers loading up my scrap - Page 2

Originally Posted by divapickers

We get thieves stealing our stuff every night. My clients tell them "No scrap, we have a guy" and they'll just come by at night.
They are always hitting our two furnace and a/c guys. I ask if they can keep it inside but they don't have the floor space.
The stupid thing is, there's camera's at both spots. However, the property owners don't want to get involved.
Any how Karma is a *****, and the "Scrap Gods" are still good to us. They steal one unit, we get two units some where else.
As a side note, When we first started scrapping in 1995, in Vancouver, all the scrappers had baseball bats and we used them.
Now that we are older and wiser, that is no longer an option for us.
Scott and Betty
DivaPickers

What if you were to get a couple used dog kennels to leave at the AC shops? It would pay for itself with the profit off one unit saved!
You would have to bolt it down real good but it would be clear that taking anything from inside it is theft.

Just seen on TV locally the cops are looking for the people that has stole more then 20 Ac units in the past few weeks. They show the pictures of the units that were scrapped right in place and they are only taking the coils! All the copper is still there! They took 6 units from a POW=MIA building of some sort.



Sad! These units cost like $10,000 each to replace and the scum are making off with maybe $60.00 worth of coil. I don't use a hatchet for tear downs but I would love to sink it into one of these jerks head!

Did you give them the toys?

Maybe take a pic with a camera phone if it happens again (hopefully not) give it to the police and email it to the yards. People who know they are stealing are not happy to have photographic evidence of it. You may want to post a sign just to make it crystal clear that this stuff isn't up for grabs. A couple hyper rottweilers may be helpful as well.