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Beware of the increase in metal thefts — lock up all your fillings

Okay, so metal theft hasn't become a big enough problem to require you to lock up your silver and/or gold fillings yet (unless your a dental lab?), but it might soon.

I hadn't given much thought to this until my daughter came by the house and mentioned that her contacts "on the street" tell her that empty aluminum cans are going for about $1.00 per pound right now. She knows my wife has a habit of saving all our aluminum pop cans, tossing them into empty green garbage bags and stacking the bags in the basement for one of our annual trips to the "Can Man." Sounds like it's a good time right now for that trip. We probably have 50 pounds setting down there.

Being curious, I "Googled" the phrase metal thefts -- and found out that there's a worldwide epidemic of thefts of industrial metals right now as prices are skyrocketing. By "industrial," I/they mean mostly copper and aluminum. Even found a story about a rural power outage that took longer to resolve because some bad guys swiped the copper cabling out of the repair truck while it was left parked on a county road for a few hours!

So, whether you've got a bag full of cans or a few truck tool boxes worth of copper wiring lying around your house -- case it in. Cash it in now, before the bad guys can target it.
[tags]metal thefts, copper and aluminum prices, industrial metal prices soar, just a guy who reads the papers[/tags]