We got ourselves some new laws in Tennessee...
One near and dear to my heart (from being part of the construction industry) now makes scrap metal dealers require a photo ID from anyone trying to sell them metal. You may not know it, but there has been a pandemic of robbery on construction sites over the past few years. Need a crack rock? Forget begging. Take yourself an ax and hack out $10,000 of copper plumbing out of a house that's under construction. The scrap dealers asked no questions, propagating a vicious cycle.
But not anymore, muchachos. The law has mostly shut down this source of money, and hopefully will deter people (read: crackheads) from stealing from construction.
Oh yeah, you can't scalp tickets online anymore (apparently this caused enough rage from the parents of Hannah Montana fans to bring this to the government's attention) and you use wire snares to hunt anywhere in Tennessee. Finally!
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
new laws!
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foiled again! and there was this chump on hannah who had some great material i knew i could get...
lucky thing you didn't try- you'd have met the rabid rottweiler named "rusty" that i keep there at night.
When I was a kid we built a Swiss Family Robinson-style tree fort using stuff from nearby home construction sites. Most of it was from the scrap piles. Most of it.
I remember last year a small country church had all the copper wiring stolen from their brand-new AC system. Heartless thieves.
i hope this law allows police to hunt down tree house building punks with no impunity. that's obviously the root of the problem here.
but seriously... it was getting ridiculous. stuff like what happened to that church was happening everyday. kudos to bredesen for getting this passed.
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