  Leland_palmer Member Username: Leland_palmer Post Number: 443 Registered: 08-2004 |
Someone in metro Detroit is hauling a stolen trailer carrying about $70,000 worth of explosives meant to pump up the crowd before Pistons games... ...“My fear is they stole it for scrap,” said Nino De Benedetti, Band-Ayd’s president. “And when open it and find it’s this monstrous thing, they’ll just start cutting into it.” That, he said, could be deadly. http://freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll /article?AID=/20080203/NEWS02/ 80203016 | ||
Andylinn Member Username: Andylinn Post Number: 711 Registered: 04-2006 |
can't we get a paper that can write a readable sentence? "Employees of Band-Ayd listed wrong in the phone book.Systems International Inc., which provides for five years has provided the flames and flash that kick off home games, discovered the trailer was missing about 8 a.m. Sunday." | ||
Viziondetroit Member Username: Viziondetroit Post Number: 1422 Registered: 11-2003 |
lol... I thought I was the only one who couldn't understand it. I thought I was up too early or something. | ||
Jt1 Member Username: Jt1 Post Number: 11317 Registered: 10-2003 |
Why isn't CL here up in arms about Warren? | ||
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 1844 Registered: 07-2004 |
Wouldn't it be interesting if a local scrap yard that had unethical practices of buying scrap suddenly went boom this afternoon? | ||
Jt1 Member Username: Jt1 Post Number: 11318 Registered: 10-2003 |
It would make me pretty happy. | ||
Rob_in_warren Member Username: Rob_in_warren Post Number: 74 Registered: 11-2007 |
I don't know if I buy the idea of this particular trailer being stolen for scrap. Didn't someone steal Hooper's (the mascot) costume a couple years ago? I'd start the investigation there. Either way, maybe this is the straw that will force law makers to stiffen penalties for illegal scrappers and people who buy stolen metal. It certainly is the most high profile case of suspected scrapping around here in a while. I just hope that the guy who stole this stuff lives near me, so I can see 50ft flames and one heck of a 4th of July show. | ||
Sstashmoo Member Username: Sstashmoo Post Number: 1021 Registered: 02-2007 |
I doubt a scrapper stole that. Probably just a thief that realizes someone will give them a few grand for the fireworks and trailer. Truth be known, it probably got repo'd for non payment. Judging by how most businesses pay their vendors around here. | ||
Bulletmagnet Member Username: Bulletmagnet Post Number: 979 Registered: 01-2007 |
Could this have something to do with the trailer that went missing about a month or so ago? That one was the trailer of a rock band from Chicago that got it ripper off as the band members ate dinner downtown. Maybe this is a theft ring. | ||
Lilpup Member Username: Lilpup Post Number: 3418 Registered: 06-2004 |
Those trailers are typical for hauling snowmobiles, ATVs, motorbikes, construction and landscaping equipment, band and electronic equipment, all sorts of goodies. It's easy enough to tell by the weight on the tongue whether the trailer's loaded or not. Thieves know that. They aren't stealing for scrap. |
