[Leica] Copper Wire

[grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey@mchsi.com)]

There was a news item today about thieves stealing the catalytic converters 
from cars to retrieve the platinum in them.  all this for less than an ounce 
according to the reporter.  Crazy World.

Gene

-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols@bellsouth.net>
>
> I have even read of those that remove copper conductors from high-voltage 
> sub-stations.  Why some haven't been killed, I'll never know. Around here, 
> the salvage yards are cooperating with law enforcement to try to reduce 
> the 
> market for the copper.
> 
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Don Dory" <don.dory@gmail.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 8:18 AM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Copper Wire
> 
> 
> > Now the folks with common sense are raiding business's air conditioners.
> > Cut the condensate high and low pressure lines and you might have ten
> > pounds of copper.  My favorite E-6 lab was down for two days last summer
> > because of this foraging activity.
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@bellsouth.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> For some, logic can prove anything!  These are the types that end up in
> >> Washington, D.C.
> >>
> >> With the current price of copper going through the roof, anyone with
> >> common
> >> sense would have sold it at the nearest salvage yard.
> >>
> >> Jim Nichols
> >> Tullahoma, TN USA
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: <grduprey@mchsi.com>
> >> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> >> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 10:39 PM
> >> Subject: [Leica] Copper Wire
> >>
> >>
> >> > Something to think about...
> >> >
> >> > After having dug to a depth of 10 yards last year, New York scientists
> >> > found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the
> >> > conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more
> >> than
> >> > 100 years ago.
> >> >
> >> > Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, in the weeks that followed,
> >> > California scientists dug to a depth of 20 yards, and shortly after,
> >> > headlines in the LA Times newspaper read: 'California archaeologists
> >> have
> >> > found traces of 200 year old copper wire and have concluded that their
> >> > ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a
> >> > hundred years earlier than the New Yorkers.'
> >> >
> >> > One week later, " The Express News," a local newspaper in Texas
> >>  reported
> >> > the following:
> >> >
> >> > 'After digging as deep as 30 yards in corn fields near Austin ,  Bubba
> >> > Johnson , a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found 
> >> > absolutely
> >> > nothing.  Bubba has therefore concluded that 300 years ago, Texas  had
> >> > already gone wireless.'
> >> >
> >> > Gene
> >> >
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> > Don
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