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Stealing copper from the coppers? Not good conduct

Cambridge Police report arresting two construction workers at the site of the new police station at 125 Sixth St. around 12:30 p.m. last Thursday "after they were observed placing boxes of copper cable into their Jeep."

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Cops cop copper copper.

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One question

By SwirlyGrrl | Mon, 04/07/2008 - 2:21pm

Will these perps cop a plea?

Depends on their mettle

By adamg | Mon, 04/07/2008 - 2:45pm

They still have to iron that out.

All puns aside

By Fornya | Mon, 04/07/2008 - 3:09pm

Are folks ever going to learn to lock up their valuable copper? You wouldn't leave your tools unattended and unguarded at a job site, why would you leave copper lying out?

Inside Job

By SwirlyGrrl | Mon, 04/07/2008 - 3:23pm

These guys were probably working on the site and knew where the wire was kept. They appear to have had access to a site that was otherwise locked.

Otherwise, leaving copper out is crazy. We cut three 8' lengths of it out of a wall when we renovated the kitchen and put it outside with the trash around 1 am. It was gone by 7 am, even though we live on a very tiny dead end street! That's an amazingly high vapor pressure for a metal.

After a fair trial... crush

By Anonymous (not verified) | Mon, 04/07/2008 - 3:47pm

After a fair trial... crush them under spools of #8 wire.

The officer's (aka "The

By Anonymous (not verified) | Mon, 04/07/2008 - 3:49pm

The officer's (aka "The Man") attention was drawn to the workers when they were observed drawing pictures of sunshine and flowers on the sidewalk.

shocking

By Jeremy (not verified) | Tue, 04/08/2008 - 12:44am

The thieves knew they were busted when the cop exclaimed, "I CU!!"

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