{"id":37305,"date":"2013-07-15T08:23:48","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T12:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=37305"},"modified":"2013-07-15T08:23:48","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T12:23:48","slug":"close-scrap-metal-yards-to-stop-copper-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/07\/close-scrap-metal-yards-to-stop-copper-theft","title":{"rendered":"Close Scrap Metal Yards To Stop Copper Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28339\" title=\"copper_theft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/copper_theft.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/copper_theft.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/copper_theft-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>A business owner is calling on the government to shut down the country\u2019s scrap metal yards until they can be better regulated after thousands of dollars worth of damage was done to his concrete pump truck, allegedly by copper thieves.<\/p>\n<p>Stanford Moss, of Regional Concrete Pumping Service, said after parking his truck in Stapledon Gardens last week, he discovered that \u201cevery single piece\u201d of the truck\u2019s metal wiring had been cut out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw the cables that connect the battery to the engine, those were cut. Then I proceeded to open up the hood of the truck and every single piece of wiring that controlled my automatic systems, the cenures, the temperature, the pressure &#8211; every single thing. I mean, gone \u2013 chopped out with a hatchet,\u201d Mr Moss said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whole value of the wire that they cut out, if they maybe get $60 for that, that\u2019s a lot. On the other hand, having to replace those wires and the labour and the cost of materials to replace that would be between $5,000 and $6,000.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To make matters worse, he said, he had been offered a contract for construction in the Family Islands, but with his truck out of commission he is unable to accept the job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After copper thieves ravaged his concrete pump truck, a business owner is urging government to close scrap metal yards until they can be regulated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[153,31],"class_list":["post-37305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-business-2","tag-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}