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Cannot think of a name wrote:

Lackadaisical2 wrote:Oh, there were two 900 lb rails?

Double my numbers then.

Yeah, sorted that part out already. I didn't feel like doing actual math or, apparently, letting google do it for me so I guessed at what the haul would be by figuring what they'd get per 100 lb but for some reason decided that that only moved the decimal one place. Then I used sarcasm to explain what I did. Then I did this. And now we are here.

Lackadaisical2 wrote:

Cannot think of a name wrote:Hey now, you can go about moving the decimals over two spaces like they're 'supposed' to (there were two 900 pound rails, unless I got that wrong too) but I clearly don't truck with that kind wreckless nonsense...

Oh, there were two 900 lb rails?

Double my numbers then.

Indeos wrote:

Psychotic Catholics wrote:Wouldn't it be fairly easier to take the guardrails from a street / highway, etc.?

Really, these guys went all out.

Probably not as valuable, and presumably you'd have less time because traffic doesn't exactly stop at night. Trains run on schedules, and I doubt it's hard to get a copy of one or figure it out.

Indeos wrote:

Coffee Cakes wrote:
You don't live in Massachusetts do you? The whole state deserves a Darwin Award.

Just a bit north, actually. A little over an hour from Boston.

Psychotic Catholics wrote:

Indeos wrote:
Probably not as valuable, and presumably you'd have less time because traffic doesn't exactly stop at night. Trains run on schedules, and I doubt it's hard to get a copy of one or figure it out.

I was actually considering the difficulty of removing a guardrail, as opposed to railroad track.

Antilon wrote:Reminds me of the time my brother tried to forge a sword by heating an iron weight bar over the stove top and banging it with a hammer against a huge rock he stole from the neighbors...

Idiots at work make the best stories.

Wilgrove wrote:

Ceannairceach wrote:I like it; I've always fantasized about having a railroad in my backyard, and these odd men fulfilled my dream.

I don't see why its so baffling; Stealing railroad tracks is rarely done, so they wanted to do it. Not an entirely difficult concept.

Well it's baffling because 1. It's 900lbs, this isn't something you can just pick up and throw into the bed of a pick up truck and people won't notice it. Which brings me to my second point, how do they expect people to not notice that they're carrying around a 900lbs railroad track? Third, railroad tracks has to withstand some serious pressure and weights when trains ride over them, so we're talking very strong steel, you would need something more powerful than the welder's torch you can buy at Lowe's to cut this piece of steel out. Not to mention that you also have to pull up railroad spikes that hold the rail to the ties.

It seems like an excessive amount of work to just score drug money.

Soviet Haaregrad wrote:I smell a new career.

The Corparation wrote:Metal is expensive. Scrap yards don't always ask many questions. Easy money. Although Steel isn't a big taker. The drug money bit is just the cop stereotyping and blaming drugs for every problem.The thieves may also of thought the line was abandoned

Wilgrove wrote:This is just....baffling....

Pope Joan wrote:I had a client who stole the magnetic flashing light from the top of a police car.

It was parked in front of his house because they were asking his parents about his theft of 100 pounds of copper wire from the high school.

Hardened Pyrokinetics wrote:

Wilgrove wrote:
No, you need Zombie Teddy Roosevelt, he'd take the piece of rail and kill the thieves with it!

Segata Sanshiro

Nightkill the Emperor wrote:

Hardened Pyrokinetics wrote:Segata Sanshiro

Nobody got the reference, huh?

Hardened Pyrokinetics wrote:

Nightkill the Emperor wrote:Nobody got the reference, huh?

Apparently not.

<sigh> Such is life...

Wilgrove wrote:So someone cuts out about 900lbs of railroad tracks, and my first question is....why? I mean assuming that druggies have done this, who are they going to sell it to?

Cannot think of a name wrote:I would have thought that the train system would have a way of telling if rails were missing ahead of time...but then, I guess I really wouldn't know how that would work. Sending signals along the rails? I don't know, I'm just the idea man...

Cannot think of a name wrote:I would have thought that the train system would have a way of telling if rails were missing ahead of time...but then, I guess I really wouldn't know how that would work. Sending signals along the rails? I don't know, I'm just the idea man...