From:
Matt Lynch-McKinney
Date:
Jul 07 22:18 UTC
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Hey folks,
If you happen to live near my house along 43rd St. E., across from the golf
course, and if you happen to have heard me drive my truck around over the
weekend, and if you happened to have thought to yourself, 'Is that man deaf or
is that obnoxiously loud truck bound for a weekend muddin' show at the
Metrodome?', I offer this explanation: someone cut the catalytic converter out
of my vehicle. I noticed it Friday, as did most of southern Minneapolis, when I
started up the truck for the first time in a few days.
As many of you probably know, the converter is worth a couple of hundred bucks
because it has a few grams of platinum in it. The thieves use battery-powered
sawz-alls to cut them out, usually within minutes, and then scamper off to a
metals recycler who is, at best, ignorant and, at worse, complicit in the
scheme.
The crooks didn't take the converter from my wife's Saturn. Cars are so low to
the ground that it's harder to remove engine parts, apparently. My truck has
lots of clearance.
Just a warning to other truck owners.
And a reminder that if you see someone scampering down an alley with a big long
pipe of metal, call the police.