Politician Has CRAZY Solution for Catalytic Converter Thefts
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- Catalytic converter thefts are skyrocketing across America. Ana Kasparian discusses on The Young Turks. Watch TYT LIVE on weekdays 6-8 pm ET. th-cam.com/users/theyoungturkslive
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We just had a catalytic sting operation here in SoCal where the repair shop were the ones actually going out and stealing people's catalytic converters. Law enforcement found an attached warehouse next to the shop filled with hundreds of stolen catalytic converters. Absolutely crazy!
Here in Texas, there are persistent rumors that the cops are in on it , and even the ringleaders !
What was the name of the shop?
Wanna bet they are connected?
That's what I call double dipping. Selling converters and getting paid to replace them. They should have marked what model cars they came off from. Them make a "special offer" to install used converters for half price plus labor and eliminate the middleman junk dealers.
The metal recyclers need to be held accountable
California is corrupt man
I agree with the previous post. The focus needs to be on the places these converters are being sold to. On average if someone keeps bringing you batches of converters, you know are likely stolen. Hell, you need id to sell a $10 item at a pawn shop. Why not to sell thousand dollar catalytic converters?
That's how it is where I live. When you take in a catalytic converter, they photocopy your ID, take a picture of your face, and have you fill out a form stating how you acquired it. A lot of thieves were caught like this.
I live in FL and drive a Toyota Corolla. I had my catalytic converter stolen last year. I'm an Uber driver so I really needed my car too. Had to pay my $1000 deductible to State Farm and was without my car for a month. It was a crushing blow at a particularly bad time. I was shocked it happened, but I was even more shocked at the number of people that told me it happened to them or someone they knew
Simple solution, require recyclers who buy the converters to follow the same process as Pawn Shops, photo, fingerprint, signature, ID check.
They don't resell them, they smelt the precious metals from within and sell the purified metals to scrape yards.
It is difficult for scrape yards to verify where scrape metals come from, and most scrape yards don't care either way in big cities.
@@ld7599 No, scrap yards don't buy cat converter guts. Are you kidding me? There's no platinum waiting to come out, it's gotta be chemically separated.
@@idontwantcorporateretaliat6301 they're smelted into metal ingots by a 3rd party, the yards obviously dont do that 😆
@@ld7599 scrap yards are not in the business of buying refined precious/noble metals from third parties just like a jeweler is not going to buy your copper piping
Even simpler solution: EVs
Need to regulate scrap merchants. The copper thieves only slowed down in the UK when they couldn’t sell the copper.
In Oz , you need ABN# (Australian Business Number used for Taxation as well as ID ) at scrap dealers if you go more than twice a year with 10 kilos or more, & car makers could put a VIN# on a CC , easy
Simple, it should be illegal for junk yards to buy them from people off the street.
Blame the government for making the car company put all this junk on cars in the first place.
Imagine how cheaper all-cars would be if they're just simple and I'm willing to bet you would get better gas mileage because it's simple and small
From a quick Google search: "Can you drive without a catalytic converter? Yes, you could temporarily drive without a catalytic converter, and it won't damage a modern car or engine. But in the long run, it'll emit harmful gas, sacrifice your car's engine performance and fuel economy, and possibly get you in trouble with the law."
If you're poor and need your car to get to work you aren't really going to give a shit if the car runs and you're polluting the air. I'm sure a mega corporation will plant some trees.
My daughter and her friend were at work at a shopping mall one morning when both of their catalytic converters were stolen. It happened at around 10 am. Luckily, insurance covered both, but the deductable was $250 for my daughter.
Someone is buying catalytic converters. Start there.
I grew up in a country where we couldn't afford much, 1 pair of shoes, 1 shirt. My mom often struggled to put food on the table. No one stole any converters. The crime skyrocketing is not poverty - it's societal decay and lack of accountability.
No one ever blames those that buy them and create the market for the thieves. Those stealing them are not the ones extracting the metal from them.
Nice call out, Ana. Always call out politicians and hold them accountable.
Stop calling it inflation when it's GREEDFLATION and has been since the introduction of "Reaganomics"
Yup…. and millions have forgotten your observation. They also don’t want to remember it, even though it’s hurting almost everyone.
How to stop Catalytic converter theft:
Fine the shops that buys them. Geez so easy
@@phillip6083 it takes a minute to steal them. Not a big window. By the time you hear the noise and say "WTF was that?" one cut is done. You have like 30 seconds from then by the time he is sliding out with the cat. Good luck
@@phillip6083 shooting them will be illegal and YOU YOURSELF will spend a great portion of your life in prison. The most effective way is do a sting on these shops that buy them without requiring proper I.D. and records of who sold it to them. If I owned a shop and I know there are undercover police officers posing as sellers I wouldn't buy them without doing the paperwork. If my shop is at risk of being fined $20k I'd stop buying from thieves. And thieves will stop stealing it.
Can you imagine if there was a UBI, people getting 1000 each to help with everything. Sure some people will buy drugs or booze or whatever, but the entire country shouldnt 'not get something' because 'well some might abuse it'. Anyone who says that shit is out of touch with the world.
I have a crazy idea too. How about actually putting thieves in prison?
DemocRATs say that's unfair.
The auto insurance companies in America made record profits between 2019 till 2023. I don’t want to hear anything from them or a single excuse for raising our rates.
Good job, Ana. This isn't a new problem and I'm pleased to see attention, finally.
Not a big fan but you young lady are becoming a very good person. I would like to see others follow your lead, you admit when you are wrong and didn't get it right. And that is a quality that a lot of people in the media do not have. I believe there are times when you want to say something that just doesn't seem right but you hold back sometimes because you value your friends and co-workers opinions. (Nothing wrong with that)!
Give citizens the right to defend their property with lethal force. Clean up the streets real quick!
You need to crack down on the people purchasing the metals. Doesn't the sale and purchase of precious metals need to be registered and ID shown? Follow the money.
Recycling facilities should require the VIN to buy used catalytic converters. Theives won't be able to provide valid, unrepeated numbers to validate they are not stolen. Just a thought.
Criminals will always do criminal stuff. If they aren't arrested and punished... They will continue.
*This can be solved real easy. Stop allowing recycle places to accept them and paying cash for them. Make it so they are worthless to steal. Problem solved. If the thieves can't get money for them, they will stop stealing them.*
It is possible to extract the precious metals "at home" too but I think that's too complicated for most thieves so I think your suggestion would help a lot.
The metals have to get back to the manufacture somehow so they can build more.
@@tlak That is not rocket science to figure out. They only accept them from verified dealers who removed them to replace a bad one. They do not accept them from just any Tom, Dick, Harry, or Jose who drops one off.
@@skunkjobb exactly, they want a quick buck. If it is going to take work, they are not interested.
@@Boobtube. They can have certified receivers instead of dealers. Found a piece of one with the honeycomb still in it on the place I bought 20 years ago.
If they’re being stolen there is an obvious market. Why not go after the buyer.
As well as the thief😊
Ban the scrap yards from buying them is the answer
Why?
That will just set up a cottage industry that will do the middle man work to extract the metals, it will work for a few months but it will be right back at it, the demand for the metals is too high.
@@MaybeDHitHim if they can't sell them crack heads will stop stealing.
It's like auto makers should put a tilt sensor on the car and the alarm would go off
Lmao Teslas literally have this and its very annoying.
Just the way she talked about this topic had me hooked into watching the whole video. Such a good speaker she is!
we had this similar problem in my country with thieves stealing wiring and drain grids but a major crackdown by police on several high level so call businessman who were buying and reselling these stolen metals seem to have stopped it. So it not that hard to stop.
In your example, you gotta get the ring leaders not the meth heads!
Make it mandatory 50 years in prison for everyone involved in stealing selling buying
You can drive a car with no catalytic converter.
Not if it has sensors down-stream of the converters. This aint 1994
@@TIMEtoRIDE900 I will drive without my converter. I dont .know what downstream means
the car might run but it's illegal federally as emission equipment is federally mandated and required so a cop can write you a ticket etc. Once you're pulled over, they can just look under your car.
Engines are so efficient now a catalytic converter would barely make a difference in emissions.
In the Netherlands you have to produce id when taking scrapmetal in to the scrapyard. This was introduced when damages from stolen lightning protection and cut up statues from parks and graveyards were on the rise. This was directly related to rising market prices for copper etc. It is not watertight but does scare off the criminals.
Nope, everybody has a job in the Netherlands, and free healthcare/school.
poor people still gotta eat. This is exactly why you should support livable wages, funding of social assistance programs, taxing corporations & the rich, etc. Poverty doesn't just affect the poor.
Muffler shop in Nashville stole mine and didn't think I would look under my vehicle after getting muffler work. When I questioned the shop about it they couldn't find my CC. Police didn't want to do anything and Davidson county has emission testing. At this time 100 people a day were moving to Nashville so it's hard to say how many people were victims of theft.
focus on supreme court. pentagon budget audit. police reform. chase the dollars not the pennies.
The politicians also made it so the Cat is easy to see, so they can have it verified at emissions tests.
My catalytic converter was stolen last week and I am now experiencing the pain on losing my deductible for such a loss. I emailed toyota asking them to develop vehicles with anti-theft shields and they responded with," We do understand that this is an issue resulting from criminal activity of third parties. We have been working with law enforcement and state legislatures across the country to help address this issue with the goal of eliminating the market for such stolen parts.
Additionally, we apologize, that due to the possibility of conflict between developments from within the Toyota organizations and ideas submitted by interested persons, it is our policy not to accept unsolicited suggestions for new products, inventions, patents, testimonials, proposals, benchmarking, marketing or advertising ideas".
So they basically told me to kick rocks as a victim because who am I to be giving advise.
Get your VIN# engraved on it
Living pay check to pay check is absolutely a ridiculous statement. Tens of millions of Americans do but they don't grab a Sawzall and cut off cats.
Pass a law that makes theft illegal. That will do it. You're welcome
The cops are busting the symtom, go after the cause. Shut these shops down buying black market catalytic converters.
Pay a living wage...
Thank you! I'm not justifying theft, not at all. But desperate people will always resort to desperate measures to feed themselves/ their babies. There is absolutely nothing I wouldn't do to take care of my child if it came down to it!!!
My friend bought a Mitsubishi SUV and within 1 week he converter was stolen and more than nine months later, she just got it back. She went through hell in that nine months.
Yeah I'm not waiting 9 months before I can use my car again. I'm installing a bypass and driving as usual.
Finally some common sense thinking! Thank you Ana for speaking for us 🙏
One point the wasn't touched on here, is the people who cut off their OWN catalytic converters and sell them and then make a claim to their insurance to replace it. That DEFINITELY happens more than people talk about or think.
sadly, I can believe this.
Won't someone think of the poor insurance companies!?!??!?! /s
@@TommyJonesProductions insurance companies are not poor. They just raise their rates to make up for it. They are NOT going to lose money.
@@Boobtube. - I really didn't think the sarcasm indicator was necessary, but I put it there anyway. I never imagined you STILL wouldn't get it.
@@TommyJonesProductions /s or not. Insurance companies do not lose money. Fact.
Politicians made this problem !! They don’t care about the people. Only if it’s their best interest.
You can ABSOLUTELY drive your car without a catalytic converter.
Maybe not in a state with high emissions standards like California, but yeah otherwise.
I just paid for a new catalytic converter on a 2005 Prius. Part, $275, installation, $121, totaled less than $400. Of course, this state does not care where the part came from or is even on the vehicle. Old one wasn't stolen, a pothole broke the honeycomb element.
stop it at the recyclers names and vins and follow up
The thieves must sell them to someone. Scrap yards? In Ohio, and many other places, I'm sure, thieves were selling manhole covers to scrapyards until a law was passed against it. How is it legal for Catalytic Converters to be sold?
Years ago the metal recyclers in my area took everything - no questions .
I remember the man hole covers and the resulting changes ...IDs, photos etc.
Good! If you are honest you have no problem.
These converters must be sold on the black market...I can't see my local recyclers risking accepting obviously stolen car parts
I thought my cordless Sawzall had been stole and my first thought was "Damn! I've given a catalytic converter thief the tool of the trade." Fortunately, I found my saw.
Companies charging $4k for a catalytic converter?? WTF?!
Someone is buying this as scrap.
Yeah, aren’t they suspicious of people bringing these converters or copper wire in?
Exactly. In Oregon and here in Washington state, they passed laws that made it so that scrappers, autoshops, and parts stores can only source their cat cons from an authorized distributor. Cat con thefts has been dying out over the last year because of this.
Electric cars don't have catalytic converters. Just sayin'.
this literally happened to my sister. she lives in san fran and her Prius' cat converter was stolen while i was visiting her. i hate cities.
Were u one of those fools crying to defund the police?
@@urwifesmacho777 the police haven't been defunded! And clearly the sorry ass police we have in this country aren't stopping these crimes.
@@utterbullspit Aside from you voting to defund the police, that's a totally true statement.
I used to work in a warehouse full of "cats". We supplied all over the UK and Europe. Even as scrap, they fetched good money. The warehouse was, of course, heavily secured. Thieves got in and stole as many cats as they could physically carry away. The warehouse was even more heavily secured. They literally made a hole in the brickwork at the side of the building.
The walls were then "wired" to set off the alarm if the wall was breached.
Thieves will always find a way
I hate to 'what about' this, but wheels are stolen quite commonly. I was at a a conference a few months ago and thieves came to the hotel parking lot at night and took all four wheels and tires off of a dozen cars. I was okay because my wheel locks worked, but it was brazen. There were six of them and they brought an extra truck to haul away the wheels. This was done under surveillance cameras and in the lot right in front of the main hotel entrance. Police looked at the video and saw that the thieves wore masks. Then they filed a report so the victims could refer to it for their insurance claims. That was it. Nothing more was done. If you value your vehicle then lock it all down.
What is a wheel lock?
@@beringstraitrailway Oh! Sorry for being obtuse. It is a lug bolt or nut that has a spline cut into it. This prevents a regular tire iron or socket from removing it. You need a specially shaped adapter to get it off. Protect that adapter and it is very hard for a thief to steal a wheel.
Who is is buying them?
Hammer that industry. Some company is not questioning where they come from.
EXACTLY! What I was thinking!, it should be relatively easy to control Who is buying those monerals isn't?
I hope that's what they're doing.
One reason that also contributes to CAT theft is that SUVs are more and more common. You don't even need to jack them up.
There are major metal recyclers buying up all these stolen cats, seems the simplest approach is to require proof of ownership to sell them those cats, and require them to keep those records on file. In some states you have to have a permit from the local sheriff or police department to sell scrap metal, the metal recyclers have to take a picture of what was brought in along with identification of who sold it and have to keep it set aside for a certain amount of time before they can recycle it. If there is no easy market to sell what is obviously a stolen item, then thieves will have a much harder time making money off of it. The feds recently busted a ring of recyclers for this. In that case thieves were stealing them from states where its hard to sell them and then shipping them to states where it was easy to do so. You need national laws for this to finally end it.
Only problem is the businesses buying them are just as criminal as the people selling them. Same thing with the corner stores that buy high priced groceries like meat, seafood, baby formula, teeth whitening strips, etc. The stores know that the people selling the products to them boosted them from another store - they just don’t care. It sounds like a simple solution, but don’t you think it’s not something that’s been previously thought of?
If it's stolen just don't put one back on just straight piped and forget about the catalytic converter !
Yep. It happened to me. It was the death of my car as I couldn't afford to fix it. $2100 to restore the exhaust system...🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
That sucks!
I would have just straight pipe it or put an aftermarket on on so you can still drive it, at least till you have to have the car inspected most cars just need a 2 foot piece of pipe to replace the section where the converter was aftermarket cats are cheap but if you live in california you have to get the factory one and that sucks
@@jbncnow what's a straight pipe? Is it like just bypassing the cc? I'm guessing the exhaust isn't as clean but it still drives well.
It's like telling a parent of a kidnapped child, "Why should the state spend money to look for your kid when you should just have better home security?"
All public servants should be chipped or tracked more. Cameras should never be erased, and if turned off, should require permission.
Try asking urself, why so many people in America kill they're partners. Its usually because of money. Women stay with they're partners because of health insurance. It's a fact. That doesn't mean we don't care about people killing people, it just means we offer a real leftwing approach, something TYT doesn't in anyway
My dad lives in California and had his catalytic converter stolen. The replacement cost more than his car was worth. He was better off just buying another car.
I like that you point out its under reported. I'm on my 3rd replacement (kind of, currently driving with a loud smelly cadillac 🙄 ) but I only reported the first one. It does literally nothing at all but take up our time, time from the cops to be doing anything else real. It's pointless to report and most people know that.
And yes my household is paycheck to paycheck. The first 2 wiped out our savings (2 from my truck 1 from my husband's car) so we're done now. One more unexpected REQUIRED large payment and we're SCREWED.
When you remove all safety nets .. this is what happens .. and we haven't seen the worst of it yet!
Yep. But fake leftwing grifters will attack Ana
My catalytic converter was taken from in front of my house, 30' from me, under a bright street light. My insurance provider suggested a local muffler shop where I was able to get an after market catalytic converter for a mere $800. Yes, it's better than $1200, but still a major expense in my limited budget. Yikes. I'm hoping no one will come after this one.
I mean couldnt you already be arrested with a catalytic converter that wasnt yours? If its not on your car why would you have one if it was yours? . Im sure they could check for reports of stolen converters and find exactly what car as long as it was stolen within a reasonable amount of time.
I replaced the cat on my civic for less than 300 bucks lmao, those mechanics are ripping people off
Depends on the car smart guy. All different designs.
@@tomm1109 Ok, I just priced another one for a 2014 VW Jetta on Rock Auto for 307.79. Labor on that shouldn't take more than an hour or two, which would ballpark the total under $500.
Again, if you're paying thousands, then you should really reconsider who's doing the work.
@@tomm1109 $234.79 on a 2017 Ford escape + labor
Still under $500.
Those cheap replacement cats are trash. They aren't nearly as good and won't last nearly as long as an OEM one. An OEM converter is worth $300 as scrap a lot of the time.
@@TurboV8boi 99% of consumers walking into a mechanic's shop have zero clue what's being installed on their cars. Are they OEM? No, but there are more shady mechanics out there than people realize overcharging. And frankly, "trash" or not, they get the job done, and every car I've replaced the cat on with a budget friendly one worked without any issues and passed smog tests. My first civic (1998 LX) I replaced the cat around 150k miles and that car ran to 400k without any major issues. My whole point is those images they showed of pricing is unrealistic in my world. I would never pay over a grand for a cat unless it's a performance car.
You need to target the People buying the stolen Catalytic Converters, and if you are hit just have a straight pipe welded in replacement and you'll never get hit again
They dont sell the part. They strip it down and melt down the metals into untraceable ingots- then just sell the metals at material value.
Won't your car fail an emissions test spectacularly?
@@sophiophile oh shit I forgot about the bi-weekly mandatory emission test.
Like, seriously, how would anyone know?
Ana is delusional if she thinks the ordinance will stop thefts. More draconian laws won’t stop thieves from just selling in neighboring cities.
@@sophiophile In Washington state they have done away with emission testings...don't know about your state
Why is it the companies never seem to suffer any losses it's always the working class people.
The companies designed it that way 🤣😂 LOL 🟪
This problem has always been ridiculous.
Catching individual thieves is impossible.
But catching scrap yards is easy, there is never any discussion about the scrap yards.
Did anyone think to pay people a livable wage so theft becomes a thing of the past?
Keep blaming victims. Typical liberal.
They steal because their criminals. They aren’t worth the dirt under their feet.
Damn those white collar criminals aren't' being paid a liveable wage either? Wow this is dire straits then.
The old ways of punishing thieves appear more and more reasonable.
Hmm, L.A. has a huge homeless population and record breaking thefts of copper and precious metals from low security targets. I wonder if there is some financial correlation. Our country is plummeting to a very scary situation due, in my opinion, to centralized wealth.
The centralized wealth is a direct result of the capitalist production model. Just say it. You understand that you can't extract infinite growth from finite resources.
The homeless aren't likely to have the tools, nor the vehicles to drive to different scrap yards. This is poor or drug-addicted people doing most of this, then being paid by the well off middle men.
When people have money, they don't commit crime! They will get what they need to feed their families! Cutting social programs will only increase crime and poverty!
A lot of these buggers are feeding a drug habit, not their families.
Got a “good “ muffler man around here. It’s simple, he seamlessly welds a piece of straight pipe, right to the muffler…$100
😎boom
the average thief can't remove those precious metals themselves, I'd be coming down on the places buying them.
How about cracking down on the scumbags who buy them.
That would stop it1 If they can sell them anywhere, then they are worthless.
@@christopherglanz3255 how about some of that undercover police work that they love so much
WHO’S BUYING THE CATALYTIC CONVERTERS? That’s who local/state/fed agencies need to focus on.
Yes. Although it is important to recycle them. But, yeah, only allowing certain people to buy them would help.
Those selling them.
... they are.
Buyers of the stolen converters drives the thefts. There are seniors that can't drive their cars because they don't have the money to replace a stolen converter. Felony possession and grand theft charge if you can't prove where you bought from. Why are our leaders sitting on their hands???
The problem with what you said that is you never have to prove where you bought anything. (And why would you?) It must be proven you stole something.
FELONY to cut off YOUR OWN cat but MISDAMEANOR if you cut of someone elses
Why Did You Vote For Her YOU GOT WHAT YOU VOTED FOR
If the desperate for money folks stealing them for money are so poor, how they going to pay the $1,000 fine?
Sell a couple converters? 🤦
Right? Anna's rant doesn't pass the sniff test. The graph she shows indicates a massive increase during the pandemic. Poverty drives the street-level thief, and the supply chain problems make it profitable for organized crime to evolve. And, every stollen converter creates a customer. Fix the poverty that drives theft in the first place. It starts with a fine, then it is a 30-day jail sentence, and then the school-to-prison pipeline gets a new lane. Something tells me Anna had a converter stolen. She isn't usually so punitive.
Maybe… the people who buy them should be the target!
Too much money in too few hands! Simple! Corporations being "People" is rather ignorant. Corporations have abilities that we do not have as individuals paying taxes. A solution would be putting limits on the spread between the pay for the lowest worker and the executives. And helping this big steal from the workers is the Dark Money going into politics. All should be transparent.
Imagine realizing your own party is nonsensical
Going after individual thieves is probably a game of whack-a-mole. By all means, arrest and charge them-- but there is always going to be another person willing to do it so long as someone is paying them. It doesn't require any start-up costs. But someone setting up a company and market for melting down illegally stolen objects and selling the metal? That's how you shut down the market.
Make it mandatory via incentives (cheaper policy) if VIN# engraved would'nt stop the melt only the resale auto companies need more incentive to fix problems before they happen ,The" Lemon Law" made them act
Crack down on the scumbag recycling operations that are buying all this stuff
nice reporting Ana always love your work. This is the very reason why im geting an electric car despite the cost
So what you're saying is a jury likely won't convict anyone of murdering catalytic converter thieves? I wouldn't.
No, because the liberals will "protest" and burn down the community if a criminal is killed while committing a crime.
@@InsiderBoysomeone say you could talk traitor? Jan 6? All those neonazi etc marches yall support...the pedos you vote for? The mass shooting you betas do every other day? Sit down boy before youre noticed
For decades, American citizen, living paycheck by paycheck. We’ve had the lowest savings rates of any developed country for a number of decades. So this is not a new phenomenon.
Not new .. but definitely WORSE!
@The Traveler - It's been even worse. During the Great Depression the unemployment rate was 25%.
But how about U.S. politicians, institutions, and society working together so it doesn't go there again?
Nah. They won't.
As a Canadian, I had an interesting conversation with an American. Here in Canada, if an employee has been performing poorly at work, or missing work days and they pro-actively tell their employer that they are struggling with drug addiction or alcoholism, it is illegal to fire them without offering help, and giving them a chance to get into a structured program to fight their addiction. They must demonstrate that they are in a program and making a serious effort to stay clean, or they are gone. It is NOT a license to stay addicted. The American seemed astonished. They asked "How can you make a problem like that the responsibility of the employer?" This video is strong evidence as to why it makes sense. If you allow that person to be fired, they become the person that will mug you. They become the person that will break into your home at night. They become the person that will loot a store, something we all pay for. They become the person that will carjack you at an intersection. Or in this case, steal your catalytic converter. If they turn their lives around, they become a contributing taxpayer who has a financial future without crime. What is the result on society as a whole? Well, we have run that experiment. I live in a large city in Canada. I can leave my door unlocked tonight and sleep well with no weapon in the home. How many Americans want to chance that? Zero. I can't blame them. They are surrounded by danger from the desperate folk.
They fire you anyway. Missing work incompetence you're a drug addict go ahead.
File a complaint.
I know of good employers.
They don't need easily skirted laws to treat people with decency or show compassion.
They are maybe 5% of employers here.
@@fangslaughter1198 "Easily skirted laws"? LOL. Sure thing. Here's what the government will do. Tell you to hire the person back, or yank your business license. Skirt that friend. Go ahead, hire the best lawyer you can and tell them you want to fight the Canadian Federal government. Your business license will be suspended while you do. Could be 2 years in Court. You will lose. After you pay the fines of course, otherwise they add them to your taxes and it becomes tax evasion. Start a new business? No. You will not be allowed to be the director of any corporation. Now they can put a lean on your home and other assets. Still "skirting"? Me thinks no. Also, with one phone call, they can freeze ALL of your bank accounts indefinitely. All Canadian banks are "Chartered Banks" regulated by the government and Bank of Canada. They must comply. You would have access to ZERO of your money, personal or business. Still in the "skirting" mood? I didn't think so. Open a new bank account? No. Your name will be blacklisted. You will then argue you need money to feed your family and pay the mortgage. Tough. Hire the person back. Yes, they get that arbitrary. You were saying something about "easily skirted"? Yes?
I have experienced cat theft. 2 f 150s and 2 Thunderbirds. I've been thinking booby traps, but I would be liable.
Yeah, you would be the one going to jail.
You described my situation exactly: I was without a vehicle for 10 months actually due to a stolen catalytic converter, and I am in my worst financial situation yet throughout my life.
Sorry to hear. That’s rough. I’m an electrical contractor and we can’t leave wire anywhere. It gets stolen from our jobs by employees of other trades and it gets turned in for recycling by other electricians with licenses that will give you cash for wire and won’t ask where it came from. We did however come up with an effective solution. We took the cost of the losses out of our own employees bonuses. You never guess, wire doesn’t disappear anymore!!!
the lawmakers don't lose one second of sleep over your problem, brother. a person shouldn't have to weld a cage of bed frame around the cat just to earn a living. these lawmakers also know that exhaust parts need replacement periodically. especially in the northeast US.
If the Automotive Engineers can make it so I have to take my Vehicle in to the Dealership, and only to the Dealership to get the Fuel Filter Replaced. You better Damn believe they can make it harder to steal the Catalytic Converter!
We had a spate of metal theft ten or so years ago in the UK.
It came to a head when there was a spate of cabling been stolen from railway signaling lines. Caused extreme delays and could have lead to major disasters.
It was legislated that all scrap metal payments have to be paid into a bank account, not in cash.
If that rule is avoided then the business risks going to court and the people selling the stolen scrap will risk incarcaration at the least.
Have not heard a thing about scrap metal theft and stolen cats are unheard of.
Somebody is buying this stolen stuff. All you need is to catch 1 person that knows who they take their stolen stuff to and you can shut this shit down hard. If Ted's recycling is buying these stolen cats, Ted's recycling should no longer be in business. Better yet, have a special police squad go around to every single recycling center or place of business and check their property for stolen cats. If they find a pile of cats and can prove they belong to cars that aren't on the lot, BAM, you caught your main buyer. If you cut off the heads of the buyers, the actual thieves will stop doing it.
I agree. However, manufacturers must do their part in design genius. Thank you for shining a light on a big criminal mess! I have a Prius, and my Catalytic got jacked, lots of misery and loss going on here! #Seriously #Wrong
get the VIN# engraved on new one ,& old one
, I put a multifunctional alarm system in the vehicle and a Cat Shield. We'll see