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Tweakers suck
« on: May 21, 2008, 10:33:42 AM »
Just a heads up for what we're starting to see out here in Arizona.  Tweakers are now stealing peoples'  catalytic converters because of the $$$ they can get from scrap yards.  I'd love to hook up an alarm on my truck that consisted of a couple claymores.   :thumbs:

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Re: Tweakers suck
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2008, 10:37:06 AM »
that was going on in cali just before I left.  They are getting around 100 bucks for one.  But to replace it if yours is stolen is around 600.
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Re: Tweakers suck
« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2008, 10:37:28 AM »
Just a heads up for what we're starting to see out here in Arizona.  Tweakers are now stealing peoples'  catalytic converters because of the $$$ they can get from scrap yards.  I'd love to hook up an alarm on my truck that consisted of a couple claymores.   :thumbs:

also breaking in to construction sites and stealing copper tubing too. drugs are fun, ain't they? ???
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Re: Tweakers suck
« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2008, 10:42:39 AM »
My uncle owns an old house not being lived in as he's working on remodeling it.. some punk ass kids went in there and stole the copper pipes... :mad:


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Re: Tweakers suck
« Reply #4 on: May 21, 2008, 10:43:46 AM »
I would f :mad: ing flip out!
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Re: Tweakers suck
« Reply #5 on: May 21, 2008, 10:45:59 AM »
Just a heads up for what we're starting to see out here in Arizona.  Tweakers are now stealing peoples'  catalytic converters because of the $$$ they can get from scrap yards.  I'd love to hook up an alarm on my truck that consisted of a couple claymores.   :thumbs:

also breaking in to construction sites and stealing copper tubing too. drugs are fun, ain't they? ???

It's awesome when they try and steal copper wire and they hit a live wire.  Fried tweaker anyone?   :clap:

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« Reply #6 on: May 21, 2008, 10:46:50 AM »
that was going on in cali just before I left.  They are getting around 100 bucks for one.  But to replace it if yours is stolen is around 600.

And some cars have two and even four.   :mad:

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Re: Tweakers suck
« Reply #7 on: May 21, 2008, 10:47:34 AM »
Just a heads up for what we're starting to see out here in Arizona.  Tweakers are now stealing peoples'  catalytic converters because of the $$$ they can get from scrap yards.  I'd love to hook up an alarm on my truck that consisted of a couple claymores.   :thumbs:

also breaking in to construction sites and stealing copper tubing too. drugs are fun, ain't they? ???

It's awesome when they try and steal copper wire and they hit a live wire.  Fried tweaker anyone?   :clap:

There was a story a person I know e-mailed me. I'll see if I can find it.... that happend!


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Re: Tweakers suck
« Reply #8 on: May 21, 2008, 10:50:06 AM »
Just a heads up for what we're starting to see out here in Arizona.  Tweakers are now stealing peoples'  catalytic converters because of the $$$ they can get from scrap yards.  I'd love to hook up an alarm on my truck that consisted of a couple claymores.   :thumbs:

also breaking in to construction sites and stealing copper tubing too. drugs are fun, ain't they? ???

It's awesome when they try and steal copper wire and they hit a live wire.  Fried tweaker anyone?   :clap:


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Re: Tweakers suck
« Reply #9 on: May 21, 2008, 10:51:59 AM »
Just a heads up for what we're starting to see out here in Arizona.  Tweakers are now stealing peoples'  catalytic converters because of the $$$ they can get from scrap yards.  I'd love to hook up an alarm on my truck that consisted of a couple claymores.   :thumbs:

also breaking in to construction sites and stealing copper tubing too. drugs are fun, ain't they? ???

It's awesome when they try and steal copper wire and they hit a live wire.  Fried tweaker anyone?   :clap:

There was a story a person I know e-mailed me. I'll see if I can find it.... that happend!

Some tweaker was hanging from a utility pole after getting zapped.  It was awesome.  Unfortunately he lived.   :(

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Re: Tweakers suck
« Reply #10 on: May 21, 2008, 10:52:15 AM »


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Re: Tweakers suck
« Reply #11 on: May 21, 2008, 10:56:53 AM »
Found the link:

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL1283190120080212


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"The sheer stupidity of cutting through power cables should be glaringly obvious to everyone,"

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Re: Tweakers suck
« Reply #12 on: May 21, 2008, 10:59:49 AM »
This has already happened to me, it is getting pretty common around the Twin Cities here in Minnesota.  My fiance was taking my truck to the park-n-ride where she would then take the bus to work.  Somebody crawled under the truck with a battery powered sawzall and cut the exhaust pipe in fornt of the cat and almost through the pipe behind it.  Something must have scared them away before they could finish since they didn't take it with.  I didn't realize anything had happened until I was driving down the road and all of a sudden my truck got real loud.  I thought my exhaust had just come loose until I went under the truck and saw that it had been cut.

They target any vehicle they can crawl under in a parking lot.  A couple of times a month the fiance says someone will get off the bus, start up their truck and it sounds like a harley.  I have heard of people now having the VIN # etched onto the cat so that the recycling centers can run numbers if they think it is stolen.

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Re: Tweakers suck
« Reply #13 on: May 21, 2008, 11:02:50 AM »
that's a great idea etching the vin into the cat...  :thumbs:


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Re: Tweakers suck
« Reply #14 on: May 21, 2008, 11:04:13 AM »
They do some crazy shit here, but they stick mostly to pawn shops.

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