Britain plagued by baffling epidemic of metal theft

[jeff of pa]

Great Britain has recently been hit by a wave of metal thieves who appear to spare nothing in their path. Manhole covers, lead from church roofs, electric cables, even memorial statues and plaques with the names of war dead are vanishing in the face of rising demand from Asia and a recycling industry that pays in cash and asks no questions.

The disappearances, which police say cost communities hundreds of millions of pounds a year, even forced a hospital in Wales to postpone critically-needed operations this month when one of its generators was stolen.

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/3...f-metal-theft/

[DemonWolfe]

Wow. Don't those idiots have anything better to do. All they do is ruin things for people who do things legally. Some of that stuff means more sentimetally to people then its worth in money I mean really who steals war memeorial plaques. Or around here I've heard of people stealing cemetary hens from cemetaries because they are brass. Sick people out there.

[hammered]

It's not a recent thing, it's been happening for a while now. I saw a news report about how it's happening worldwide, there are videos on Youtube about it


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[davest]

does this have anything to do with the employment or lack of employment picture in Great Britian, or austerity measures of any type?

Once the metal has been scrapped and shipped to Asia for conversion into geegaws who is going to buy the geegaws?

I'm pretty sure this will be moved to the pull tab section or deleted, but how did the PTBs manage to flush jobs world wide down the crapper? It constantly looks like tax cuts for them, austerity measures for us.