Guarding Guardrail: Aluminum Theft on the Rise
Search the Internet for the words guardrail and theft and most of the stories will involve criminals who are being pursued running into guardrails, but a local TV station is reporting on the theft of aluminum guardrails in the Bay Area. The motive? Scrap aluminum is commanding a high price. Caltrans and the CHP are setting up sting operations, but say that it will prove difficult to catch the thieves. I first learned about guardrail theft when Joy tried to steal a guardrail on My Name is Earl.
In any case, the victims of high aluminum prices are stacking up. First it was Subaru saying goodbye to our lightweight friend and now this. What's next?
The ultimate irony would be for an aluminum thief to lose control in a corner that had recently been vandalized. The chances of that are pretty slim. In the meantime if you see anybody working on guardrails at night they are probably not fixing it.
Thursday, January 25, 2007
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I was shocked when it happend by my house on the Ardley overpass of 580 in Oakland. I immeadiately called 1-800-tell CHP, and Pat Kerinhan of Oakland City Council.
Then a week later I saw the guardrail missing from another overpass location down by the old Oak Knoll Navy hospital. HTis week I saw a few peieces missing from the 13th avenue overcrossing.
I too am shocked that someone would want to make their city ugly like that at the expence of everyone else. They should get some pride. Not meaning to overgeneralize but I don't think that it's Earl.
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