• SektorCOP
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      That’s exactly what a copper thief would say.

    • JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world
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      Copper spools have the sheathing stripped off, wire cut to reasonable lengths, then brought to multiple recyclers in stages.

      To be sure, the odd idiot will show up with a unadulterated spool and try to get paid, but most that go to the effort of abducting these things off the side of the road aren’t entirely stupid.

      Then again, a less scrupulous yard might still buy the spool as it comes and strip it themselves.

    • Some people were about to buy a house then on the day of closing, they inspect the house one last time and found all the copper pipes missing lol

      So they had to re-negotiate about the purchase price

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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      Copper-nabbers are opportunistic, and won’t take the time to forge an original invoice.

      I dunno, it’s kind of hard to spell “Ea-nāṣir” correctly.