Thieves Steal Batteries From 32 School Buses

[Not Sure]

http://www.local10.com/news/29094232/detail.html

[Studiopaul]

Whos storing power here at GIM2? I guess you saved money on batteries and got the larger inverter!!
:hahaha:

[NewBob]

Probably just sold for scrap value. I doubt they were put to any use...

[Studiopaul]

Shoulda got the cats too

[phideaux]

The school district put other buses into service to complete the bus routes.

So the school district has surplus buses:questionmark:

Sell 'em!

Never mind, silly me.

[Studiopaul]

http://www.wnep.com/wnep-mon-catalytic-converters,0,3985256.story

older story here

[Not Sure]

Probably just sold for scrap value. I doubt they were put to any use...

Yup. I figured they wanted the lead. That's why I posted it here.

Trying to sell the whole, working batteries would bring too much attention.

[cbear]

If it's like our school district, they have extra buses because they cut the number of routes. Now all kids within 2 miles of school have to get there on their own (mommy & daddy).

[cpthnsolo]

Yup. I figured they wanted the lead. That's why I posted it here.


I just can't wrap my head around how the typical scrap thief thinks. Standard size car batteries are around $5ea at the yard so someone went through a lot of trouble for a relatively low payout. Meh, at least they weren't destroying $3000 a/c units for $60 :\ .

[hoarder]

You can get $7.50 each for them around here but I haven't heard of anyone stealing them. I'm keeping my house batteries locked just in case.

[TnAndy]

If it's like our school district, they have extra buses because they cut the number of routes. Now all kids within 2 miles of school have to get there on their own (mommy & daddy).

Or......God forbid......WALK.

[TnAndy]

You can get $7.50 each for them around here but I haven't heard of anyone stealing them. I'm keeping my house batteries locked just in case.

Mine weigh about 200lbs per 2v cell ( has 2 positive, 2 negative connections), assuming you can get them to slide out of the case of 3...or the case (layer) of 3 does have it's own lifting eyes if you can pick up 600lbs.

I'd appreciate if they let me pull up a lawn chair and watch.............

http://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47a1dc09b3127ccefc2d7fa9257600000030O01Acs2TJq0cMw e3nwE/cC/f%3D0/ps%3D50/r%3D0/rx%3D720/ry%3D480/

[cbear]

Or......God forbid......WALK.
To get to most of our schools would require walking on narrow roads with 45MPH traffic. There are no sidewalk in most of the area. When I was a kid, they actually would not let the students ride bikes to school, even though we wanted to.