Stealing copper from the coppers? Not good conduct
By adamg - 4/7/08 - 2:01 pm
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."
Earlier:
Cops cop copper copper.
Comments
One question
By SwirlyGrrl - 4/7/08 - 2:21 pm
Will these perps cop a plea?
Depends on their mettle
By adamg - 4/7/08 - 2:45 pm
They still have to iron that out.
All puns aside
By Fornya - 4/7/08 - 3:09 pm
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 - 4/7/08 - 3:23 pm
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) - 4/7/08 - 3:47 pm
After a fair trial... crush them under spools of #8 wire.
The officer's (aka "The
By Anonymous (not verified) - 4/7/08 - 3:49 pm
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) - 4/8/08 - 12:44 am
The thieves knew they were busted when the cop exclaimed, "I CU!!"