Parts of Longfellow Bridge become scrap
By adamg - Thu, 09/04/2008 - 9:21pm.
What else would thieves do with 2,300 feet of decorative trim that had been stored in Stoneham while the bridge was being repaired?
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Hold it for ransom?
Hold it for ransom?
Seriously, how do you swipe 115 tons of iron, and where do you stash it?
1. With trucks and a
1. With trucks and a crew.
2. It goes straight to a hole, where it stays until the heat blows over, and then it goes to a waiting scrap yard.
Your government at work.
This is very sad. Here's a
This is very sad. Here's a picture of what I think the post is referring to: http://cache.marriott.com/propertyimages/b/boscm/phototour/boscm_phototour21.jpg
Where do people get the gall?
The Longfellow Bridge may be old and badly in need of repair, but it's still a beautiful bridge, and the elaborate, ornate cast-iron railings, along with the "salt-and-pepper shaker-like buildings in between the pieces of railing are what make the Longfellow Bridge as unique and beautiful-looking as it is. The fact that someone had the unmitigated gall to steal something like that is beyond belief.....and disgusting. Here's hoping the miserable little thief is caught and made to return that piece of cast-iron railing. Seriously...where
do people get the gall?
Q. Where do they get the
Q. Where do they get the gall?
A. Ummm...$$$$$
Where to get gall
China.
For brass-bound
You pay extra
The destruction of
The destruction of infrastructure and art and for scrap metal seems to be an increasing problem in the Boston area. Haven't we seen around a dozen publicized incidents in the last few months?
A friend in the midwest just remarked that they are having trouble rehabilitating houses there, because thieves will do $10,000 damage to get $1,000 of pipe.
It's heading towards those third-world countries we used to read about, where they have trouble keeping up land-line communications because thieves keep tearing down the lines for the copper.
A fellow architect has told
A fellow architect has told me that in Mexico City people will chisel bricks and stones out of buildings (particularly in public parks away from night time activity).
If current trends (and administrations) continue we could be seeing this before long.
I get irritated at stories
I get irritated at stories like this now because it seems to me than any construction project manager worth his/her salt, public projects doubly so, should be smart enough to lock down precious metals such as these, copper wires, etc, under high security.
DCR worker accused of selling scrap metal from the same yard
Suspended for eight days for selling non-Longfellow scrap for a party for co-workers.
only suspended?
"According to sources, the worker allegedly used the money from the metal sales to fund a party for co-workers. He has been suspended for eight days."
And he was only suspended and not fired?
Inotherwords,
the little thief got off with a slap on the wrist. How disgusting! He should've been fired on the spot.