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Go large or go home!
Looks like those bloody thieves did both ! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Marty Henry
Projectiles could be harder to find than some 7mm.
Wait for thefts from sports clubs of shot puts and bowls
a blue truck with hiab on deck and ramps..there cant be more than 20-30 of them in entire country...hiab yes ramps yes but not both.. I cant actually ever recall seeing one set up like that
it has to get a COF somewhere..... it got certified by engineer somewhere too....
really distinctive vechile surprised it hasnt been located yet.
maybe to be seen in opotiki soon...discharging a load of grapeshot
AND if they have motorway footage of it..they will already know its number plate....big brother is always watching from somewhere.
I smell an inside job…….someone knew that they where going to move this!
Be cut up fpr bronze scrap metal by now. Pricks.
this scrap metal thing pops up a LOT...... surely the metal buyers must not be that thick or desperate for the metal itself??Quote:
Originally Posted by Woody
It's extremely valuable scrap metal, smelted before the nuclear age, so useful for scientific and research instrumentation. Could be worth a whole lot more than bronze scrap. Shipwrecks are being raided for the "low-background" metals, especially steel and lead. It is apparently big business, fetching US$33 per kg. Bronze may be in demand for experimental purposes too... See here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19019691/
you would have to be a real lowlife to buy it for scrap.....and that truck just HAS to be known..something smells awfully fishy here to me.
The type of crim has been thieving copper wire off power poles for decades, stealing bronze boat props and fittings etc. That cannon would be a money prize to them. Small pieces and a backyard forge; easy money. Bit like rustling for the pub meat raffles which was common around cni a few years ago. Suspects are easy to figure. Proof is another matter.
Sometimes it’s the scrap metal dealers who are the thieves themselves!Quote:
Originally Posted by Micky Duck
hung drawn and quartered...bastards. that thought had crossed my mind re the blue truck..bloddy distinctive vechile..not often a crane AND ramps on same truck.Quote:
Originally Posted by Seventenths
What sort of truck would have ramps and hiab?
Wreckers and the "we buy cars for cash" crowd
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that plod will have figured that out by now
It would take a wee bit more than a backyard outfit to melt something the size of that cannon down. The thermal mass to get it hot enough for starters, and cutting it any other way would be both messy, difficult and expensive.
So either a bent scrappy is doing this or someone with knowledge of international contacts for these metals.
Isn't this very similar to the copper sheeting theft up there on the observatory dome that was up for maintenance.
I would be looking at the mayor....trying to get a good deal for his ratepayers by paying back some debt.