can someone post this on the Beep Beep Lettuce facebook group? lol
LPT: rich people's cars have something called a catalytic converter that can be removed relatively quickly with a saw. You can get a thousand dollars for it at a scrapyard!
Sure, but I'm not telling anyone to fuck over poor people.
Unfortunately not only rich people cars.
And environmentally friendly cars tend to have more expensive catalytic converters too :-(
it still fucks me up how there's a few grams of platinum just sat there in every old car or motorbike
But it's not the platinum that makes the scrap value so high, it's the rhodium, or so I've been told.
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/rhodium
Change the scale and look at the price spike for rhodium after 2020. That will explain the rise of catalytic converter theft.
At my wife’s work, the thieves pulled up and acted like they were blowing leaves with a loud as gas blower, cut off 3 in the employee parking lot.
I caught a guy breaking into people's cars by just going up to every car in a parking lot and trying the doors. I was just sitting in my car waiting until a store was open so I had a lot of time to sit and stare.
He was wearing a hard hat, carrying a clipboard, and a Starbucks cup. Trying to open every single car in the parking lot, until he made eye contact with me, then he took off.
I think the hard hat, clipboard and starbucks cup really worked. What homeless drug addict is gonna look like that? Nah that's obviously someone who wouldn't break into people's cars. Someone to ignore in my peripheral vision.
stuff like this irritates me. idk if i'm wrong but my take has always been: if you're gonna steal (hell ya do it), go to a rich neighborhood or inside walmart. leave us general working class proles alone.
Agreed. People try to steal from the city pool and I'm like, "you should really dream bigger."
Yeah unfortunately this is it. It's easier to steal from the poor
yes... i don't think anyone disagrees. it's still a fucked up thing to do. go to a rich neighborhood or inside walmart. leave us general working class proles alone.
Once some guys stole a big-ass statue in Copenhagen and loaded it on a truck and sold it as scrap. Nobody batted an eyelid as they were wearing work clothes and looked like they were supposed to remove the statue.
Once in Morecambe bay people sawed the statue of Eric Morecambe off at the leg in broad daylight in the same way (leaving just a foot and his lower left leg on the pedestal) and presumably melted down the statue and sold the metal
The leaf blower stuff is actually quite smart from the thieves
Still feel bad for the workers whose catalytic converters got stolen
I'm surprised I've never even heard about a scene in a movie or tv episode with a leaf blower. It's a perfect sort of distraction and misdirection - besides being noisy as fuck.
I guess it's a bit bulky to carry around and it would be difficult to explain why leaf blowers are present in certain situations plot wise.
But that's not how it works, if you want anything more than old spark plugs and worn brake pads from the shop, you're going to have to pay for it, even if it's from your own car. It's called a cash on part exchange fee or something. The shops makes money off of scraping worn out/old parts too. If you want your old parts that have decent scrap value or can be refurbished, you have to pay up. Though there is a potential for profit if the amount of money you can make for selling the part directly to the scrap yard or refurbishing it is more than the fee.
https://www.liveabout.com/core-charge-for-auto-parts-281542
That website explains it better than I can. I'd imagine the core fee on OEM catalytic converters is pretty high.
