Crackheads = Stolen Radiator

Some d*ckless, piece of sh*t crackhead stole the radiator out of my '49 Cadillac Sedanette that I just inherited last weekend. I'm having trouble sourcing a replacement. Do any other GM makes have the same radiator (I'm a Ford guy)? Any help is appreciated.

 

Who the hell would go through all the trouble to just get the radiator out for $1's worth of s**** if they didn't have a specific use for it? Did they take anything else? Seems odd to take just that unless you had it out laying around and an easy grab. Any other '49 Caddy's around that might have needed a radiator? Regardless, good luck finding a replacement.

 

Just once,I'd like to hear about one of us hambers catching our thief red handed and destroying the piece of ****.

 

I s****ped a small radiator and got $72 for it, not yours my own smashed mess, Aluminum BBQ grill, $55, lock your stuff up they've been breaking into job sites forever, it's easier to steal a copper car part than cut out half a house worth of copper. Steel is 18 cents a pound for gosh sakes.

 

I wouldn't tell you if I did.....

 

It was parked at my in-laws farm. They busted the vent window, popped the hood, and stole the radiator. They also stole the radiator out of the Case tractor and they tried to steal the radiator out of the Farmall tractor.

When I go over to check on the place, cops always stop and ask me what I 'm doing there, but apparently they don't mind if crackheads are creeping around looking for $2 worth of s**** to score their next rock. Vigilante for life!

 

I love those Sedanettes. Not enough to steal though. People are idiots.

 

Hate those A**holes, they broke into are mechanical room with Boiler and 2 compressors and plumbing supplies. They where after copper but I dont store it there, just galv and blk pipe fittings and pipe. They must have been pissed because they dumped everything off the shelfs and knock them over as well. Didn't take anything. Made my worry about the fate of compressors because they know there there. I wired the dbl doors to the security system after that.

 

Neither would I.No one would ever see him again."hey,what ever happened to that shifty crackhead that used to come around,haven't seen him for quite a while".

 

my son pulled the radiator out of his volvo project, put it on the side of the building for storage, next day go out to take some masurements, gone ****heads get into the dumpster for s**** etc. times are hard but WTF stay out of my stuff . RD

 

A couple of those loser's were stealing the AC compressors out of the AC units in some of the local churches. Good new here though, they were caught.

 

Mice like cheese, crackheads like radiators............ set the trap.

 

I don't know man.... I haven't seen him in awhile either. probably in jail or something

 

rads go for alot! i bought a front end loader radiator at auction for $130 and sold it the next day for s**** and got $220!

 

Hell in Florida the s**** thieves have been at it so much that now at the s****yards you have to show a picture I.d. and most of the offices have cameras in them. They have caught a few this way which is a good thing.

 

They do that here too. If your s****ing copper you have to wait a week before you get payment on your s****. Just in case you s****ed something you were not supposed to.

 

People disappear all the time. It truly is a tragedy.

 

20 dogs and nosey neighbors with guns on a dirt road called owl hoot in the deep mississippi woods is how you keep that stuff safe.

 

I am all the way over in Australia and I am scared!!

 

it's a quaint place, every other house has 3 or 10 project's infront of it, my neighbor has a vega witha 454 that likes to pop out windows. and everyone here is looking out for everyone else. not a house on the road has less the 5 guns and 4 dogs.
btw, last person ( possibly was a meth head) to try to rob a house on this road got
shot 10 times. legal here in MS. just gotta have no tressp***in' signs in plain view.

 

I lost 3500.00 worth of tools and personal property to a one legged crackhead here in Los Angeles. Anything for the pipe. I hope he rots in hell. A question I would ask is, are aluminum manifolds worth s****e? Maybe too hard to remove.
SouthSideSlick I feel your pain. If it is any consolation, the addicts that steal truly know what pieces of **** they are and if you look at their brains you will see swiss cheese holes forming from cell destruction by meth/cocaine use. It is amazing that God looks after them. Abandoned by loved ones, shunned by society, accepted only by their own, I would rather die than live that life.
John

 

Aluminum, copper, steel, magnesium, platinum, all of it is high and bringing big money. Damn tweekers don't care! One got his *** fried locally a few weeks ago when he broke into a power substation and tried to steal the copper ground cables. The Law of Natural Selection did his *** in.

 

Make for a good line in his newspaper obit.

 

if our ***** leaders would legalize drugs, this wouldn't happen.

my 62 has a copper radiator.

 

The copper wire theft has gotten ridiculous around here, we used to include copper salvage in our demolition bids, but no more- even if the wire is there at the walk-thru, it probably won't be at demo time. They got the wire out of the softball diamond lights and the solar field behind the local junior college here a few years ago, disconnected the wires at a couple pull boxes, tied them to the trailer hitch on their truck, and took off, pulled the wire out of the underground conduits- and left some good tracks on he asphalt. Lights went off a 10 PM after the last game, next morning the landscaper went to fire things up at 7, everything was dead
One outfit I worked for rents a shop building in their yard to an electrical contractor, and they got hit over a weekend- the tweakers cut a hole in the cyclone fence, then through a wall, and stole a big roll of wire- and never touched any of the expensive Ridgid and Milwaukee tools sitting on the shelves

 

we have already lost many cons***utional rights to fight an unwinable war on drugs. it's a win/win for big gov...

 

Worth alot more then $2 in s****,those things are all copper and br***,worth about $2.00 a pound....and that thing weighs about 40-lbs,do the math

 

SouthSideSlick,send a pm to KOTC on here,he might still have the stock one out of his `50 Caddy.

 

We had a guy, cut a guy wire and take the tension off a whole line of poles. Funny thing though ,it snapped the end pole off right at ground level, then it launched the broken pole up about 50 feet before coming back down and impaling the tweeker. Darwin Award Winner, for sure!

 

Guys were going after the copper wire on the old railroad telegraph lines in the midwest. I think the railroad salvaged what was left.