WHATS THE WILDEST YOU'VE HAD STOLEN

[JD5652]

Sounds like a potential business for me, HVAC Security Yep copper prices are back up, I guess the Chinese are building something new?

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By Xin Dingding (China Daily)
Updated: 2009-04-21 07:42

China will start constructing five nuclear power plants (NPPs) this year, part of an effort to dramatically expand its nuclear power capacity by 2020, officials said Monday.

The five NPPs will be located in Sanmen in Zhejiang province, Haiyang and Rongcheng in Shandong province, Taishan in Guangdong province, and Changjiang in Hainan province, Sun Qin, vice-minister of the National Energy Administration, said, without revealing the total costs.

"The first unit of Sanmen NPP started construction on Sunday and signaled China's nuclear power industry has sped up," Sun said. "China has the largest number of NPPs under construction," Wang Yiren, secretary-general of China Atomic Energy Authority, said. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei said six of the 10 nuclear power reactors that started construction last year were in China.

The government is also considering revising the target, as earlier reports said the country aims at a nuclear power capacity of 60 gigawatts by 2020, a 50 percent jump from the earlier target.

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Sounds about right JD, few years ago before the summer Olympics scrap metal was the hot thing to have here, man you name it junk cars, farm equipment, aluminum, stainless was being hauled, dragged, airlifted to Goldmans in New Bern.

I saw no less then 6 truck loads of junk Downeast and on Hwy 70 to day, one truck had a piece of chain across the ass end to keep the bed from blowing out from the overload, where is the DMV guys at

But copper wire was the high dollar thing, had a couple contractors where I use to work decide to gather up some scrap dragline power cable to sell. We are talking about 5-6in. diameter stuff $30 a ft. Got a call one night from Security to see if I could meet them in Aurora to identify 2 men they thought worked in my Dept. Get out there and holy mother of.... these guys had a whole 8x16 trailer rounded up with the stuff. 245ft. to be exact cut up in 10-15ft. pieces. We we had to unload and reload onto a company flat bed and haul it back to the plant to be locked up for the Sheriff dept. Guys where charged with larceny and poccession of more than 25lb. of copper.

Come court time the guys figured they would have had to repay the value of the copper at salvage prices, roughly $3-4000 after the sheating had been burnt off. Boy did they get a suprise, Judge broke out the calculator. Actually the guys had stole the wire off of a new roll which was around $2-215,000 a roll and basically ruined the roll. Judge figured they had screwed up around $47000 of the roll and thats what he ordered them to repay the company and in a 2 year period Talk about getting nailed, I wish a Judge would be that heavy handed with all criminals

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[Jared D]

Another Costa Rica story for ya... This one from my little brother.

They went to a coastal town near Jaco. While there they were surfing a point when some guy broke into their car to steal a tshirt that was left inside. While in the car, the guy found one of my bro's friends passports (idiot for taking it w him, so he figured he would hide it... but didnt hide it enough).

Now the funny part. They went to the consolate to get a new passport. While there, they got to talking with a american lady (~23-25yo) who had gotten robbed when she got to her hotel. Someone came in and beat her up and took all her money and identification. So she called to police. They came, and after talking with her a while, they then hit her a few times and took her luggage.

My bro said she was black and blue and couldnt stop crying. All she wanted was to go back to the states. She had only been in CR for about 18 hrs at that point. My bro said she was a wreck.

[Henrique38]

Had my house broken into a few years back and they took my cigars. Not the craziest thing, but they were real good cigars and it pissed me off.

[Joey Herring]

A guy that works for me had his dentures stolen by a hooker once....true story!

[PLAN 9]

My sister had a 1987 Nissan and lived in Jersey City. That car used to sit in a parking lot all week so she would lend it to me and my ex when we lived on L.I. One week I had picked it up and noticed the trunk lock broken out and opened the trunk to find the spare and a $300 leather jacket stolen. Got that fixed, a few weeks later her husband goes out to the car and realizes they broke into the rear wing window on one side and STOLE the wing window from the other side! Finally about 3 weeks later got a call asking me if I had the car, had 2 cars at the time so we answered no. Guess they got tired of stealing the car in pieces and took the whole thing.

Once had my pick-up broken into, did not steal the fishing tackle in the back seat, camera on the front seat, took the 4D cell Maglite from under the seat.

[Agitated88]

Maybe not the wildest "thing" stolen, but defiantly the wildest circumstances I’ve encountered. I was in Udorn Thailand on a deployment in the summer of '92. A bunch of us were enjoying a afternoon of adult beverages down by the pool when all kinds of commotion breaks out at the far end of the pool. Doogie (flight doc) and I run over to see what’s going on and there’s an American guy laying prone on the bottom of the pool. Doogie and I jump in and get him, drag him out and begin CPR…according to his inebriated partners they were having a contest to see who could hold their breath longest under water. Well when you combine Mekong the drink and Marine bravado bad things can and do happen. After 15 minutes or so the Thai ambulance shows up and he’s on his way to the hospital where subsequently he was EVAC’d to Bangkok and later died. Once the Marine was taken away and the crowd dispersed we headed back to our seats to discover that during the mayhem, someone had taken Doogie’s camera bag, which included a Cannon (fill in the blank w/model) camera, couple lenses and ALL the film from our trip, plus wallet, passport, etc... According to Doogie over $3k worth of camera equipment stolen while we're trying to save this kids life. I guess no good deed goes un-punished.

[mate4hire]

Had refrigerator that blew up on me in backyard for about a week or two. Went away for the weekend came back and it was gone. Called everyone i knew to see if they for some reason picked it but apparently not. So thank you thieves for saving me a trip to the dump.

[Double D]

More petty Florida thievery…

I went to college in Melbourne, and one night I hear some noise in the living room. Go out to look and see 2 gentlemen, one holding the VCR and the other trying to unhook the TV (we had bought both the VCR and the 12" B&W TV at a yard sale for $40, they were sitting on milk crates). Now we had been shooting skeet that day and there were 3 shotguns leaning against the wall right next to me. But, genius that I am, rather than scaring these guys straight I throw on the light and yell “HEY”.

They bolt trough the slider and the race was on. I ran right through the screen and chased them out of the apartment complex and down US1. The one guy must have figured my VCR was slowing him down, so he threw it at me. After another couple hundred yards without gaining on them, I realized I didn’t have much of a plan if I caught them and let it go. Went back and got the VCR and headed home.

That’s when the police pulled up. I must have looked a tad strange walking down US1 at 2:00 am in my tighty whiteys carrying electronics, so it wasn’t long before they put the cuffs on. I convinced them to go get my roommate who would verify my story. Forgot about the guns

They walk in, see the guns and freak out. Wake my roommate and cuff him too. Roomate goes into battle mode for a minute (who can blame him), and I thought things were going to get real ugly. Uncharacteristically, he settled down. Took an hour and calls to friends to verify gun ownership, and finally had them believing my story. Yelled at me for “destroying evidence” by picking up the VCR. More cops show up with a dog.

Well the dog finds 2 guys lurking in the bushes in a lot next door. They arrest them and tell me I need to go identify them. OK, I gotta go look at a lineup I assume. Well, they cuffed these 2 poor saps to a palm tree and drive me by at 40 MPH. “Is it them?”, they ask. “How the hell should I know, it's pitch black?” “Well, since you can’t ID them we have to let them go. ” Got a nice lecture about how the police can’t do their jobs if the public is not cooperative

Fun evening

[evets358]

I had my cordless home phone in my pocket when I was mowing my front lawn. I felt the phone vibrate so I put the mower into idle and answered the phone.

It was my dad. He wanted a phone number from my mobile phone. So I went inside and gave him the number. I was away from the lawnmower for less than 60 seconds.

I walk back out the front and yep, you guessed it, some one had stolen an idling lawn mower from my half mowed front lawn...