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Was told today that a catalytic converter was taken from Engineers point on Sardis Thursday in broad daylight . Was thinking about going in the morning if I could find someone to watch my truck . Figured up the lake might be a risk but on the Dam , kind of bothers me . Dang we are going down hill faster than an elephant on roller skates . :juggle
Buddy it was happing at an alarming rate here in Ohio daylight, night etc. 6-8 at the ramps daily and shopping malls etc. They busted one guy here in Ohio and when investigators went to his house there were in excess of 1500 converters in his garage.
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Welp guess I have no comment then lolQuote:
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Was not trying to start political controversary . Letting C.C folks know there is a issue in the area with thieves and getting bolder everyday.
Coach your post is still a great reminder concerning the converter theft issue. It's terrible down here on the coast. I'm using "Very" publicly used ramps or very obscure ones. The thieves don't seem to find the obscure ramps because they are not local. The only other option is we launch in our friends back yards, several have private ramps accessing the river systems.
Takes some intestinal fortitude to crawl under a vehicle and steal on of those in broad daylight. Sad times we are in
Bad problem for sure !
had mine taken last year at a wide open ramp parked within 50’ of a main 4 way highway with 2 intersections close by
in wide open daylight! :banghead:banghead:banghead
It slowed down a little since they caught one of the culprits in the next county the next day or 2 after he had been caught in our county and released . :banghead:banghead
you talking about a sick feeling coming in from trying to enjoy the outdoors and finding out this had happened. Took a while to pray through the bitterness and the hate. Sad day we living in for sure ! :pray
Why not? When the writing is clearly on the wall.Quote:
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Why converters anyway? They melting them down and selling the metals for drugs? I don’t get it
Why converters anyway? They melting them down and selling the metals for drugs? I don’t get it
Thieves target catalytic converters because of the value of the metals found inside the devices. Catalytic converters are typically made up of three precious metals: platinum, palladium and rhodium. The value of all three metals have risen sharply in price in the last decade.
Well said Eagle1, thank you.
Converters are worth more than the rest of the exhaust system metals.
They can cut one off in about 2-3 minutes or less they sell them to the black market scrap dealers mostly where they get $20-$50 bucks each which makes it real quick easy money!
I sure would have gave him 50 bucks not to cut mine it cost me almost 700 to get em replaced and you would think since I have the vehicle fully insured that they would have paid but they said no because they insure the vehicle not its components! :banghead:banghead
not me,, would have given him 10 cents worth of lead.Quote:
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Be a bad day to have some good ole boys drag you out from under a vehicle and give you a what for
Church vans are the easiest target. Converters super simple to reach. A pastor in my county had one stolen out of his van while parked at Harbour Freight in Brandon. Was in the store 10 minutes. On the way home he noticed things didn’t sound right plus rattling. Stopped and checked it out and yep, the converter was gone.
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Very sad
We have a bud dealer in the same building as us and I can’t tell you how many school busses I have seen them having to install new exhaust systems in… it is sad
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Here lies the problem. A kayaker returns to the new Biloxi River North ramp to find a guy cutting off his converter. He used his paddle to smoke the thief. Gulfport Police arrested the kayaker! Better to avoid going to public ramps. Sad to say.
Now that’s the very sad and pathetic truth
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I was told that the Vicksburg dist. no longer has a B-shift . I only put in at the dam or Chickasaw on Enid . Dam or Holiday lodge on Sardis . Dam only on Grenada . It could happen anywhere but the most patrolled areas are protected best . Jmo . Wish I had a bigger boat/ motor .
At this point in time,,, seeing those precious metals all come from Russia and being the very reason for price increases,,would t it be smart to just do away with with the emmisions laws for awhile? Be an easy fix to an expensive problem
I remember back in the 70’s people used vari- injection to bring down emissions,,, which was plain old H20 and mixed water with it at a certain ratio with fuel,,,,and it worked,,,,without any issues with buying all those metals,,,,