[Gort]

First, read the following two articles. They’ll blow your mind.

Scrap Metal and Grave Robbing and Thieves Lifting Manhole Covers

Then ask yourself:

Will zinc prices someday spike so ridiculously high that collectors will have to guard their diecast models with a shotgun?

[parsig9]

Originally Posted by Gort

Will zinc prices someday spike so ridiculously high that collectors will have to guard their diecast models with a shotgun?

You feeling alright there Gort?

[Paladin18]

Well, that's why I collect Tamiya Masterworks and K&C armour. It's plastic and/or composite stone-resin mix. So there's no fear of me arming myself and mounting round-the-clock sentry to guard my collection against scrap metal thieves.

[kabelace]

If it isn't secured down really good its gone. I work in the telecommunications industry and we have had ground wires ripped off equipment on poles leaving power supplies ungrounded, major safety issue for guys like me working on equipment on the poles. Aluminium pedestals use to be the norm for the phone company in this area but now the scrap thieves just go down the streets steeling all the lids. One time thieves opened up a pull boxe by a train bridge, cutting what they though were some large copper communication line to steal, well they weren't copper they were fiber optics lines. Knocked out Cable TV, high speed internet, phone services in a huge area for a while. Lots of very PO people then.

[mikeb1958]

Who needs a shotgun when we have a .357 Magnum with hollow points. Come and try to get 'em I say or anything else in the house. Some copper theves lookin' to steal some copper from my property? They can have the one or two brass casings from the .357 shells if they can pick it up after.

[mikeb1958]

If they try and steal your IXOs with all the oil on them, they would slide right out of their hands when they are running so you will recover them very easily. It would be like running with a greased pig.