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Posted: 5/26/2024 10:31:51 PM EDT
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This guy was 37.
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Posted: 5/26/2024 10:33:04 PM EDT
[#2]
How did he vote?
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Posted: 5/26/2024 10:35:29 PM EDT
[#3]
I guess scrapping converters is serious business now.
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Posted: 5/26/2024 10:36:11 PM EDT
[#4]
Part and parcel
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Posted: 5/26/2024 10:38:27 PM EDT
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Should have shot the thieves from his window with a rifle, if he had one.
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Posted: 5/26/2024 10:38:53 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/26/2024 10:42:21 PM EDT
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Not gonna say anything CoC compliant about cat thieves
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Posted: 5/26/2024 11:58:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I guess scrapping converters is serious business now. I clicked one of those scrapping links on Pg 1. The average is 79 bucks for the crackhead. If he’s a smart crackhead there are some cats they say get 5-600 bucks ea. Good call on the over watching. I could see focusing on the shit bird with the sawzall and missing a lot. |
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Posted: 5/27/2024 12:02:58 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: How did he vote? Thanks Edge Lord. 
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Posted: 5/27/2024 12:21:19 AM EDT
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This State of CA and L.A. are the main cause as a result of their shitty politics, end of story
So, this happened at the intersection of West Pico and South Hope. Its less then 1/4 of a mile from a Level II trauma center. Granted, there is some shit penetrating trauma can't fix. I Worked in that district for 14 years as a Firefighter/Paramedic, I've been elsewhere in the city for the last 7 years(THANK GOD). I got out as things were getting shitty in downtown. Anytime Ive worked overtime in DTLA or ran calls in that area it's been out of control. My wife has said multiple times that she'd rather I work on Skid Row instead of that area of DTLA. At this point I'm blessed to be where I'm at. I'm just waiting for my son to graduate H.S. And... I'm out. 23 years ago I just wanted to be a Fireman and a Paramedic. LA City used to be the place to be. Kick ass fires, the place to be to be "the best" and all the Medical/trauma to be the best Fireman/Paramedic. Now the good ones on the job are just biding their time to retire. |
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Posted: 5/27/2024 7:19:05 AM EDT
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Wactor got whacked.
Mrs going to be upset when she hears the news, she's a huge General Hospital fan. Probably hear from the BIL today too, he did a few episodes (bit parts) on that show and no doubt knew the guy. |
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Posted: 5/27/2024 7:34:34 AM EDT
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If you’re confronting intruders on your property prepare for the worst; if you are going out, you are confronting, prepare accordingly. Those are criminals, they don’t care about you.
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Posted: 5/27/2024 7:37:23 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Catalytic converters should be a 1 for 1. Got to bring one in to get one, and you can’t get any money for one. No more laws. |
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Posted: 5/27/2024 7:41:17 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: This State of CA and L.A. are the main cause as a result of their shitty politics, end of story ---snip--- /this Catalytic converter thefts don't take place anywhere else for a reason. Just like the wild fires and flooding, it's all due to their voting. |
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Posted: 5/27/2024 7:41:57 AM EDT
[#15]
EV thread?
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Posted: 5/27/2024 7:49:31 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Same thing happened to a Houston cop a couple of years back. He was at a grocery store , came out to his truck and the thieves were stealing it. He confronted them and got shot. If I recall it was early evening with daylight. Harris County SO but close. Wish he'd have capped those MF's... |
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Posted: 5/27/2024 8:03:29 AM EDT
[#17]
It should be legal to kill thieves that have been caught in the act.
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Posted: 5/27/2024 8:13:20 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Weapons free on anyone under your truck. Better be on the look out for their watchmen. There the ones that will kill you |
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Posted: 5/27/2024 8:14:04 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Its not the guy under your truck you have to worry about, its the 3 armed overwatch friends he has with him. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: All fucking thieves must fucking die. Weapons free on anyone under your truck. Its not the guy under your truck you have to worry about, its the 3 armed overwatch friends he has with him.  Attached File |
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Posted: 5/27/2024 8:29:23 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Catalytic converters should be a 1 for 1. Got to bring one in to get one, and you can't get any money for one. |
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Posted: 5/27/2024 8:32:37 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It should be legal to kill thieves that have been caught in the act. I'd say it should be legal to shoot anyone stealing $100 of value or more. |
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Posted: 5/27/2024 11:34:23 AM EDT
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If you are found under my jacked up vehicle, you should be aware that jacks have been failing around here lately, and you may be found under there in the morning.........
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Posted: 5/27/2024 11:48:01 AM EDT
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Brando got whacked for an automobile related reason. Meanwhile, on the show, he owned Brando’s Garage. Life imitates art sometimes. The wife and all her sisters and mom are big GH fans. I usually watch bits and pieces while surfing Arfcom in the evening. I’d rather she watch this with me in the room than that fucking POS show Gray’s Anatomy. That shit is the epitome of woke TV. I yell at the TV like a psychopath when it’s on. Gotta go out and reload in the garage or face the wrath of looking like a retard yelling at an inanimate television.
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Posted: 5/27/2024 11:58:06 AM EDT
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freakin' savages
i did some google street view looking around that area. didn't seem very upscale. like one of those typical urban / city areas some developers are trying to gentrify but it ain't quite there yet |
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Posted: 5/27/2024 12:01:19 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Brando got whacked for an automobile related reason. Meanwhile, on the show, he owned Brando’s Garage. Life imitates art sometimes. The wife and all her sisters and mom are big GH fans. I usually watch bits and pieces while surfing Arfcom in the evening. I’d rather she watch this with me in the room than that fucking POS show Gray’s Anatomy. That shit is the epitome of woke TV. I yell at the TV like a psychopath when it’s on. Gotta go out and reload in the garage or face the wrath of looking like a retard yelling at an inanimate television. Mrs just said Brando was killed by the "Hook". |
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Posted: 5/27/2024 12:06:52 PM EDT
[#26]
After checking those first page links I may or may not have a couple including a DPF filter getting sold.
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Posted: 5/27/2024 12:16:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Police departments around the country should be doing bait cars/trucks with downward facing claymores that are detonated when the exhaust pipe is cut. Add in thermal equipped volunteers hidden nearby to handle the thieves' overwatch. "Hey, I have a load of cats, meet me at the dead end by the river at midnight." |
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Posted: 5/27/2024 12:26:50 PM EDT
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It’s a huge business,
Just last year, they busted a Cali family selling these to a NJ metal refinery with the stolen goods totaling $600mm. The family pocketed $38mm. |
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Posted: 5/27/2024 12:42:54 PM EDT
[#29]
Bring back neck stretching for all thieves. That or loss of hand for first offense
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Posted: 5/27/2024 12:52:57 PM EDT
[#30]
Sounds like he was walking a friend to her car, happened upon these guys, who he, at first, thought were trying to tow a car. The thieves shot him as he was trying to keep his friend out of harm's way.
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Posted: 5/27/2024 12:57:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Tell them to stop making them out precious metals. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Catalytic converters should be a 1 for 1. Got to bring one in to get one, and you can’t get any money for one. Tell them to stop making them out precious metals. Or tell the shady scrappers to not accept a trunk full from people who look and act shady and they know stole them. Oh, but that would be against "capitalism" and the virtue signaling principled capitalist conservatives here couldn't have that. |
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Posted: 5/27/2024 1:11:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Or tell the shady scrappers to not accept a trunk full from people who look and act shady and they know stole them. Oh, but that would be against "capitalism" and the virtue signaling principled capitalist conservatives here couldn't have that. The same scrappers are buying stolen copper too, but those guys are nickel and dime by comparison. Catalytic converters are much more lucrative and require far less time on target, which is why the shit bags going after Cats are more dangerous. I don't get why law enforcement doesn't get a hardon for assholes that demonstrate they will actually kill cops. |
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Posted: 5/27/2024 1:15:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Or tell the shady scrappers to not accept a trunk full from people who look and act shady and they know stole them. Oh, but that would be against "capitalism" and the virtue signaling principled capitalist conservatives here couldn't have that. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Catalytic converters should be a 1 for 1. Got to bring one in to get one, and you can’t get any money for one. Tell them to stop making them out precious metals. Or tell the shady scrappers to not accept a trunk full from people who look and act shady and they know stole them. Oh, but that would be against "capitalism" and the virtue signaling principled capitalist conservatives here couldn't have that. We can't have laws or any government action that prevents crime. It could be abused. We have to wait until AFTER the crime escalates to where somebody gets killed THEN we can MAYBE do something. But definitely not until after the murder or attempted murder has occurred. Your catalytic converter is not worth potentially infringing on someone else's freedom. Heck - your teenager daughter's LIFE is not worth potentially infringing on someone else's freedom. Better that innocent people die than we try to make sure animals like this are controlled. If you think otherwise, you hate freedom. So I've been told. |
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Posted: 5/27/2024 1:20:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Tell them to stop making them out precious metals. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Catalytic converters should be a 1 for 1. Got to bring one in to get one, and you can’t get any money for one. Tell them to stop making them out precious metals. Why are they even neccessary these days anyway? I'm no automotive engineer, but i was alive before they were complusory additions to vehicles. If i recall things correctly, CCs were phased in, via gubment mandate, to phase out leaded fuels. At the time i heard the special materials inside of CCs bound with lead that passed through. A filter of sorts. This would clog the CC and render the vehicle inoperable. A costly punishment for pouring leaded fuel in the tank. I believe they also changed filling station pump nozzles to further inhibit using leaded fuels in the newer vehicles. I was a kid at that time, so maybe someone can also shed light here. I also find that transition hilarious. Lead was once introduced to fuels as a lubricant. It cost more to include it. Later on, when they removed this additive, they charged more for removing it.  That is like charging you more for not adding as much sugar to the cookies you bought. You'd think skipping an ingredient would lower the cost. I also suspect, seeing how Congress has oversight of industries they legislate, someone in that body made major bank investing in CC manufacture. Injecting their investment in a solution for the "lead problem" before it was going mainline. I don't think any fuel company has made leaded gasoline in decades. If CCs serve as lead filters, why are they still a thing? |
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Posted: 5/27/2024 1:23:41 PM EDT
[#35]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Catalytic converters should be a 1 for 1. Got to bring one in to get one, and you can't get any money for one. Another fix would be to make it a crime for a recycling business to accept one without proof of ownership of the vehicle that it came from. |
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Posted: 5/27/2024 1:35:30 PM EDT
[#36]
Not a fan of Sharia law, but I must admit that their method of handling thieves has merit.
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Posted: 5/27/2024 1:39:59 PM EDT
[#37]
I love how the story says he didn’t try to stop them but they shot him anyways. Why do these idiots think criminals won’t harm you if you don’t resist? So a criminal has some honor or rules? The fuck outta here with that “logic.”
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Posted: 5/27/2024 1:42:19 PM EDT
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I am not a "bad ass" by any means. BUT there is a universal truth, that if you havent learned at this point, you are living with your head in a hole.
That truth: There is a growing segment of the population that has ZERO disregard for human life. They will callously end it in the commission of petty crime without a second thought. If you are going to interact, engage, or attempt to get involved in any of these scenarios, you better be gun in hand and absolutely in a "go hard" mind set. There is no other option, if you are getting involved. |
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Posted: 5/27/2024 1:43:44 PM EDT
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It's CA. They'll probably sue the manufacturer and the victim's family on behalf of the criminals who took the CC. If the manufacturer had not made it so easy to remove and the victim not angrily confronted the poor people who took the CC in exchange for food, none of this would have happened.
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Posted: 5/27/2024 1:45:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Or tell the shady scrappers to not accept a trunk full from people who look and act shady and they know stole them. Not how it works. These aren't random meth heads going down to a salvage yard with a shopping cart full of cats. It's full on multinational organizations with guys brining in tractor trailer loads of 'verts, having them stripped out and the melted down to the base precious metals. |
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Posted: 5/27/2024 1:47:08 PM EDT
[#41]
Quote HistoryQuoted: who? 
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Posted: 5/27/2024 1:47:35 PM EDT
[#42]
Jesus christ that website has aids!
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Posted: 5/27/2024 1:48:07 PM EDT
[#43]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I love how the story says he didn’t try to stop them but they shot him anyways. Why do these idiots think criminals won’t harm you if you don’t resist? So a criminal has some honor or rules? The fuck outta here with that “logic.” Logic being "who wants to catch a murder charge over $20" |
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Posted: 5/27/2024 2:01:03 PM EDT
[#44]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Sounds like he was walking a friend to her car, happened upon these guys, who he, at first, thought were trying to tow a car. The thieves shot him as he was trying to keep his friend out of harm's way. Wrong place, wrong time. Sad story, |
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Posted: 5/27/2024 2:02:14 PM EDT
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He was a friend of my wife’s best friend. Sounds like he was a decent guy, caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.
RIP.
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Posted: 5/27/2024 2:07:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Why are they even neccessary these days anyway? I'm no automotive engineer, but i was alive before they were complusory additions to vehicles. If i recall things correctly, CCs were phased in, via gubment mandate, to phase out leaded fuels. At the time i heard the special materials inside of CCs bound with lead that passed through. A filter of sorts. This would clog the CC and render the vehicle inoperable. A costly punishment for pouring leaded fuel in the tank. I believe they also changed filling station pump nozzles to further inhibit using leaded fuels in the newer vehicles. I was a kid at that time, so maybe someone can also shed light here. I also find that transition hilarious. Lead was once introduced to fuels as a lubricant. It cost more to include it. Later on, when they removed this additive, they charged more for removing it. That is like charging you more for not adding as much sugar to the cookies you bought. You'd think skipping an ingredient would lower the cost. I also suspect, seeing how Congress has oversight of industries they legislate, someone in that body made major bank investing in CC manufacture. Injecting their investment in a solution for the "lead problem" before it was going mainline. I don't think any fuel company has made leaded gasoline in decades. If CCs serve as lead filters, why are they still a thing? The converter does what the name implies. It take something in the exhaust, carbon monoxide, Nitrogen oxide, or something and it reacts with the chemicals in the converter to neutralize it with water vapor as the byproduct. CCs need to run hot for the reaction to be complete. Its been many years since I was working on cars but was working in the business when all these changes came about. I'm sure I'm off on many details of the converter as its been years. |
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Posted: 5/27/2024 2:11:27 PM EDT
[#47]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Betting that when they find out who did it the perp will have a criminal record dating back to age 12. Yup. Over on Reddit, they greeting the above with skepticism, in spite of plenty of historical examples. They blamed poverty, lol. |
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Posted: 5/27/2024 2:11:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Now I’m curious how much these shitbirds can get for these things Must be a lot if it’s worth murdering someone There’s been some enforcement directed against it lately, but there are online “scrappers” who will buy them, in addition to all the scrap yard buyers. Phoenix PD here recently did a big sting that made some arrests from “scrappers” and really reduced thefts all across the state since. Generally speaking, scrappers are the children of whores too mean and ugly to birth tow truck company owners. |
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Posted: 5/27/2024 2:16:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Nah, hit the buyer network. "Hey, I have a load of cats, meet me at the dead end by the river at midnight." That’s not how it works. Scrap yards are legit businesses and even have online portals. They just don’t care if they can make $10 off your $2000 loss. |
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Posted: 5/27/2024 2:21:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: who? Had to look it up. Dude was on general hospital. No wonder noone knows him. |
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