On Sun, 4 Dec 2011 22:50:24 -0500, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:

How about armed parishoners, and beat and stab and shoot the copper thieves
to death?

Works for me but if you want to stop it, deal with the market.

wrote in message
.. .

Copper theft won't stop until we actually punish the
****ers.

It's actually pretty easy to stop it.

1) Require ID to sell scrap (and dealers to record ID info)
2) Take picture and/or thumb print of sellers
3) Require buyers to pay by check

It worked around here.