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Mexicans Are Stealing Border Wall Materials, Using Them For Home Security
« on: March 22, 2019, 06:21:02 pm »
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Whatever adjectives you might use to describe a border wall ― “big” or perhaps even “beautiful” ― “readily stolen” is not likely one of them.
Unnamed Mexican officials told San Diego’s KUSI-TV that 15 to 20 people have been arrested for stealing concertina wire from the U.S.-Mexico border and selling it to security-minded homeowners in Tijuana.
U.S. troops installed the fencing in November 2018 at the urging of President Donald Trump, who was concerned about a “caravan” of migrants.
“We have detected that the barbed wire that was installed in the border area is no longer there,” Marco Antonio Sotomayor Amezcua, the secretary of public safety in Tijuana, confirmed to the San Diego Union-Tribune. “We know about the stealing of the concertina [wire] from United States authorities who have asked us for help through the liaison staff.”.....

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Re: Mexicans Are Stealing Border Wall Materials, Using Them For Home Security
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2019, 06:53:49 pm »
Why concrete is better--no scrap or resale value....
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Re: Mexicans Are Stealing Border Wall Materials, Using Them For Home Security
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2019, 06:57:02 pm »
Quote from: ABX on March 22, 2019, 06:21:02 pm


Don't want to sound racist, but have you ever seen Mexicans at a garage sale?  They'll buy (use) things that you thought were dumpster bound.
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Re: Mexicans Are Stealing Border Wall Materials, Using Them For Home Security
« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2019, 06:59:26 pm »
Quote from: catfish1957 on March 22, 2019, 06:57:02 pm
Don't want to sound racist, but have you ever seen Mexicans at a garage sale?  They'll buy (use) things that you thought were dumpster bound.
Yeah. Folks who have done with little can take a little and do a lot with it. I respect that, actually.
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Re: Mexicans Are Stealing Border Wall Materials, Using Them For Home Security
« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2019, 07:07:03 pm »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on March 22, 2019, 06:59:26 pm
Yeah. Folks who have done with little can take a little and do a lot with it. I respect that, actually.

Ditto...
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Re: Mexicans Are Stealing Border Wall Materials, Using Them For Home Security
« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2019, 11:43:15 pm »
Build this and let 'em try to steal it:
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Re: Mexicans Are Stealing Border Wall Materials, Using Them For Home Security
« Reply #6 on: March 22, 2019, 11:44:22 pm »
Quote from: Fishrrman on March 22, 2019, 11:43:15 pm
Build this and let 'em try to steal it:

Yep. Concrete doesn't have any scrap or resale value to speak of.
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Re: Mexicans Are Stealing Border Wall Materials, Using Them For Home Security
« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2019, 02:16:45 am »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on March 22, 2019, 11:44:22 pm
Yep. Concrete doesn't have any scrap or resale value to speak of.

We routinely buy/sell crushed concrete around here.  Makes a good road base material.

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Re: Mexicans Are Stealing Border Wall Materials, Using Them For Home Security
« Reply #8 on: March 24, 2019, 12:12:20 am »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on March 22, 2019, 06:53:49 pm
Why concrete is better--no scrap or resale value....

 888high58888   There you go.  Excellent point.  Freakin' thieves!!   9999hair out0000
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Re: Mexicans Are Stealing Border Wall Materials, Using Them For Home Security
« Reply #9 on: March 24, 2019, 02:02:58 pm »
Quote from: thackney on March 23, 2019, 02:16:45 am
We routinely buy/sell crushed concrete around here.  Makes a good road base material.

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Yep, but you aren't the peon packing it off for a peso. Having rock crushers and rebar recovery magnets and large trucks to haul it make it a much more viable commodity, plus, if the operation is set up right, they get paid to get it, and get paid for the crushed concrete and the salvaged scrap rebar, so they're making money on both ends of the operation.

Now little Jose and Pedro with a couple of sledgehammers and a pickup (maybe) aren't going to have that going for them.

OTOH, concertina wire can be 'harvested' with minimal tools....and pound for pound likely has a much better resale value.
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