Full Version: Sales of Bronze Plaques and Statuary are up!
From: Peter [#74]
6 Oct 2006
To: ALL
Brass is the new gold for thieves
SAM RICHES, POLICE REPORTER
October 06, 2006 12:15
HOMES, building sites, farms, schools and one of Adelaide's best known hotels have become the targets of specialist thieves looking for valuable brass and copper.
Their latest haul is a heavy brass lion taken from the Stamford Grand hotel at Glenelg at the weekend and now management fears the landmark ornament will be melted down for profitable scrap.
Police say copper piping is routinely taken from homes and building sites in SA, and 4000 chickens died when pipe was stolen from a Gawler egg farm in August.
Thieves interstate have hit schools in search of drinking fountain pipes, but the theft of the lion is the most audacious such crime in this state.
As hundreds of revellers packed the hotel around 1am on Sunday, two or three men were spotted at the main entrance walking past the $10,000 lion before pushing it off its settings, driving a white Holden Commodore up to it and loading it in the car.
Stamford spokesman Mike Ryan said the lion was one of two at the hotel that "were part of the company culture" and he offered seven nights' accommodation to anyone supplying information that led to its recovery. He hopes the theft was a prank, rather than an intentional grab for valuable scrap.
"If it is, then I guess we won't be seeing it again," he said.
Metal theft has increased in line with rising world demand for copper and the price of brass has doubled in eight months.
SA metal yards report primary copper has gone from $5000 per tonne to $10,000. In the past six months, copper has fluctuated between $7.90/kg to $9.80/kg. With a world copper shortage, brass prices now are on the way up, selling for around $4.40/kg.
Police are reviewing security tapes. Anyone with information on the Stamford Grand theft or metal stealing generally, should contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
From: BratDawg [#75]
6 Oct 2006
To: Dave Jones (DAVERJ) [#73] 7 Oct 2006
It got tossed out because the atorney needed to have a "plain tiff"...
:-)
(BTW, where's Stuntman?...I didn't mind going next but I like it better when I go "affidavit"...
Steve
From: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#76]
6 Oct 2006
To: BratDawg [#75] 6 Oct 2006
He is probably 'hiding out'. It is very difficult to 'perpetrate' anything after you.
You seem to 'steal' all of the really good stuff. I need to 'appeal' to your better 'judgment' to leave something for us. After your posts, we have been 'bar red' from the 'punitentiary'.
From: BratDawg [#77]
6 Oct 2006
To: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#76] 6 Oct 2006
Besides, Uncle Loren has invited me over for a drink..he's just installed a new "sidebar"...
:-)
Steve
From: Stunt Engraver (DGL) [#78]
6 Oct 2006
To: Peter [#74] 6 Oct 2006
Wow! I'm sure the theft of metal has been going on for awhile, but now we're seeing more recent news items.
Getting worse. :S
From: Stunt Engraver (DGL) [#79]
6 Oct 2006
To: BratDawg [#75] 6 Oct 2006
Had some local business to take care of, so I had to leave.
Guess, next time, I'll have to make you "The Chair" person.
From: Peter [#80]
6 Oct 2006
To: ALL
Just to add fuel to the fire...much , if not all the increase in copper and brass, steel and aluminium requirements that are driving the increase up in these prices ....is
China..
Nearly every ounce of Australian scrap metal is exported there.
regards
Peter
From: Stunt Engraver (DGL) [#81]
6 Oct 2006
To: Peter [#80] 6 Oct 2006
That would explain why little of the stolen metal is showing up at local scrap yards.
Export it to countries who don't care where it comes from.
From: Peter [#82]
6 Oct 2006
To: Stunt Engraver (DGL) [#81] 7 Oct 2006
David,
They do care where it comes from..!
They know what rules our people....and they know it doesnt take much of it, to make our people resort to crime to get it.
Dont blame them....they are merely throwing pearls before swine and watching us cut our own throats to get at them......
sad.........
Peter :-(
From: Stunt Engraver (DGL) [#83]
7 Oct 2006
To: Peter [#82] 7 Oct 2006
That's the type of thing I would expect of third world countries.
Is civilized society becoming a thing of the past?
From: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#84]
7 Oct 2006
To: Stunt Engraver (DGL) [#83] 7 Oct 2006
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