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(610 WIOD) Florida Old and busted: Selling stolen copper wire to scrap yards for drug money. New hotness: Selling stolen copper wire directly to your dealer for drugs   (610wiod.com) divider line 20
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Sybarite [TotalFark]
2011-10-21 09:23:07 AM
How man CPs for a lid?
 
Adjective Bird Whiskey [TotalFark]
2011-10-21 09:40:53 AM
It's good to take out the middle man when possible.
 
jaylectricity [TotalFark]
2011-10-21 01:06:05 PM
It's actually pretty brilliant. You're keeping the crack heads out of the scrap yards, because having them there is bad for business. It looks bad to your legitimate clients and it looks bad to the police.

But one guy - the dealer, or his friend - coming in periodically with a load of scrap metal is much more efficient and will raise less suspicion. Not all criminals are stupid or else nobody would be afraid of them.
 
skullkrusher
2011-10-21 01:30:21 PM
Copper Standard!
 
thelordofcheese
2011-10-21 01:42:21 PM
I hate the these.
Get a productive job instead of just thesing things from others.
 
SweetSilverBlues [TotalFark]
2011-10-21 01:52:50 PM
Pfft. We here in the ATL are SO over that copper thing.

Now we steal hair.

THAT'S gangsta, yo.
 
21-37-42
2011-10-21 01:56:04 PM
DNRTFA so, I'm confused by Subby's headline

Do you exchange the copper wire for currency and then exchange the currency for the drugs or are we just allowed to trade the copper wire for the drugs without exchanging any currency?
 
Leeds
2011-10-21 01:56:06 PM
So they're essentially paying their dealers in pennies?
 
HelloMyNameIs
2011-10-21 02:07:57 PM
thelordofcheese: I hate the these.
Get a productive job instead of just thesing things from others.

Do you suggest rounding them up and sending them to an autocorrectional facility?
 
WildManBand
2011-10-21 02:22:46 PM
Damn, that's actually a pretty good idea. I bet the dealer makes more money off a 20 rock by receiving copper worth more than 20 dollars (a tax.) God bless black market capitalism.
 
jmadisonbiii
2011-10-21 02:31:32 PM
cdn3.sbnation.com

Hide yo pipes, hide yo wires
 
BigSlowTarget
2011-10-21 02:38:38 PM
And we move one more step toward the Fallout 3 economy.
 
Clemkadidlefark
2011-10-21 02:43:55 PM
lebrondajameson.com
 
royone
2011-10-21 03:03:35 PM
1. Go to police and offer to wear a wire
2. Trade wire for drugs
 
Oznog
2011-10-21 03:07:09 PM
theeraofathena.files.wordpress.com

Truly, the modern Alchemist has finally found his Philosopher's Stone- he's discovered a way to turn base Sudafed into copper.
 
Lone Stranger
2011-10-21 03:09:38 PM
You'll never get me you dirty coppers!
 
Bob16
2011-10-21 03:44:26 PM
Buy low.

Get high.
 
Ronin_S
2011-10-21 10:28:57 PM
21-37-42: DNRTFA so, I'm confused by Subby's headline

Do you exchange the copper wire for currency and then exchange the currency for the drugs or are we just allowed to trade the copper wire for the drugs without exchanging any currency?

The druggies take their copper to the drug dealer, then the dealer takes the copper to the scrapyard themselves.

The dealer probably does it for a markup (say $50 of copper for $25 worth of drugs), and it's less suspicious for him to go to the scrapyard from time to time with large amounts, assuming he's clean.
 
Young Rory Calhoun
2011-10-22 12:06:24 AM
jaylectricity: It's actually pretty brilliant. You're keeping the crack heads out of the scrap yards, because having them there is bad for business. It looks bad to your legitimate clients and it looks bad to the police.

But one guy - the dealer, or his friend - coming in periodically with a load of scrap metal is much more efficient and will raise less suspicion. Not all criminals are stupid or else nobody would be afraid of them.

Having dealt with "scappers" in my line of work I can say with confidence that scrapyards don't have legitimate clients. Just criminals who haven't gotten caught yet
 
JamesLi
2011-10-22 06:39:22 AM
Young Rory Calhoun: jaylectricity: It's actually pretty brilliant. You're keeping the crack heads out of the scrap yards, because having them there is bad for business. It looks bad to your legitimate clients and it looks bad to the police.

But one guy - the dealer, or his friend - coming in periodically with a load of scrap metal is much more efficient and will raise less suspicion. Not all criminals are stupid or else nobody would be afraid of them.

Having dealt with "scappers" in my line of work I can say with confidence that scrapyards don't have legitimate clients. Just criminals who haven't gotten caught yet

Hah, this is actually pretty true.

I loathe scrap thieves. They are like the filthy, stupid, underling bad guys from a post-apocalyptic movie.

/I swear officer, I found this fifty feet of stripped telephone wire on the side of the road
//Also, don't forget crackheads will steal various food items(usually steak, though) and take that to the dealer for bartering
 
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