Copper Thieves

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Did you see it this morning, Mary, when you're driving
out on the Ipswich mote away from the McDonald's at
Goodna all the way through to Redbank Plaza no street lights.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
We were only talking about this yesterday, how thieves are
stealing the copper out of the street lights on the highways.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Yeah, Ipswich Motorway, the Warriorgo. Yeah, certain points I noticed
this morning, like one side was on but the other
was That's true, yeah, in a couple of points. So
I've been noticing it the last few days. And as
we were discussing yesterday, I just thought, on all the
light bulbs are out, but that's odd.

Speaker 4 (00:31):
There's a section there must be an issue.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Also that looked like it was out. Was the phone camera.
You know the phone camera's near Goodna there. Yeah, yeah,
so right across there because the speed limit signs were gone.

Speaker 4 (00:46):
Oh yes, yes, true. It was dark as yeah, and
with the fog around it was yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Very dangerous. So I hope hopefully they'll get to the
bottom of who stole all the copper wiring mac is
in lately? Have you had any copper stolen?

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Mate? The mate?

Speaker 1 (01:00):
What happened matter?

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Well, I bought I bought a house and I'm doing
it that that needed a lot of clean up and
all that. So were we weren't there for for a
couple of days. And when I come back as a
dirty grade by whole in my back wall and they
punched through. They got into the house and they took
all my copper piping, everythingle bit of it. I got

(01:23):
no plumbing in the house at all. Now, oh my gosh,
Oh yeah, they're not happy. Good.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
No, absolutely, did you have any cameras or anything like that.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
No, like, I've only owned a house like two weeks.
But the neighbor next door, he said, he said, a
white a rock, give it a couple of blakes in
their twenties or something. Yeah, he goes. I didn't think
much of it. I thought I was just cleaning up.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
Yeah, yeah, of course, especially when you've just purchased the property.
It's only been a couple of weeks and you're doing
some work. I mean, utes can be coming and going.
They wouldn't know what the police said.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Well, I had to police there. They took some fingerprints, Yeah,
they go, We've got a really good prince, a couple
of really good prints here. Yeah. Two days later they go.
We can't match the prince to anything.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Oh well, surely there's someone buying the copper, so you know,
if someone rocks up with a load of copper.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
I had a chat to the scrap bloke down already
here and he says that they haven't been here, but
we can't tell you if they did or didn't anyway,
but he goes. But what it is is some places
will take their copper without having to show ID, but
they won't give them the full price.

Speaker 4 (02:35):
Really, that's not on Oh.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Man, who that is? And that just opens the door.
Let's do more.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
Yeah, of course mate. And now you've got to go.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
And you know, not only do you have no copper
or your pipes in there, you've got to go fix
the hole in the back wall.

Speaker 4 (02:51):
Wow. Yeah, yeah, that's terrible.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
That is horrendous here. Yeah, it is a real thing.
There's more calls coming through. Kath is on the line.
Hello Kat, Kats and Kangaroo Point. Hello Kat, what's happened
with you?

Speaker 5 (03:06):
Oh, good morning guys. Our house looks like it's abandoned.
It's an old rundown joint. We've been out for the
day with our little children and come home. There is
water everywhere. We thought we must have had burst water
Maine or something. No, they've token all of the copper

(03:30):
pipes for the plumbing. They didn't touch the electrical wiring.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah, but why't they turn.

Speaker 5 (03:38):
Off the water at the main.

Speaker 4 (03:42):
In a hurry. They're not worried about that. They just
want their pipe. My god, is it's not just.

Speaker 5 (03:49):
That the copper gone? It is now everything is rudy, yes,
like maga.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
Terrible.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
There needs to be a crackdown on this. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (04:03):
And how are the people not getting electrocuted taking it off?

Speaker 4 (04:08):
Yeah, the main street exactly, rubber gloves. I don't know.

Speaker 5 (04:12):
Oh, I don't know. I wouldn't want to be touching
any power lines.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
No, exactly, it's it's it's it's bizarre.

Speaker 4 (04:20):
You're exactly right. That was my question.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Then there needs to be a serious crackdown on this
because this can't keep happening. They're ruining people's lives, yes, breaking.

Speaker 4 (04:28):
Into their houses and terrible.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
You know, and I can't imagine what if someone has
an accident on the highway. Yeah, these people are responsible.

Speaker 4 (04:36):
But they don't care.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
No, but they need to be found and tracked down.

Speaker 4 (04:40):
It's terrible.